S.I. No. 373/1991 - Radiological Protection Act, 1991 (Designation of Convention Countries) Order, 1991.

1. This Order may be cited as the

Radiological Protection Act, 1991

(Designation of Convention Countries) Order, 1991.

2. The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are hereby designated as the countries which are parties to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material done at Vienna and New York on 3 March 1980.

SCHEDULE

Argentina

Liechtenstein

Australia

Luxembourg

Austria

Mexico

Belgium

Mongolia

Brazil

Netherlands

Bulgaria

Norway

Canada

Paraguay

China

Philippines

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Denmark

Portugal

Finland

Spain

France

Sweden

Germany, Federal Republic of

Switzerland

Greece

Turkey

Guatemala

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Hungary

United Kingdom of Great Britain and

Indonesia

Northern Ireland

Italy

United States of America

Japan

Yugoslavia

Korea, Republic of

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 20th day of December 1991.

GERARD COLLINS,

Minister for Foreign Affairs

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This order is made by the power conferred on the Minister for Foreign Affairs under

section 35

of the

Radiological Protection Act, 1991

. The State is a party to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and the effect of this order is to designate the other countries which are parties to the Convention. The purpose of the Convention is to facilitate international co-operation in the peaceful application of nuclear energy and to avert the potential dangers posed by the unlawful taking and use of nuclear material.

S.I. No. 373 of 1991.

RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION ACT, 1991 (DESIGNATION OF CONVENTION COUNTRIES) ORDER, 1991.

I, GERARD COLLINS, Minister for Foreign Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 35

of the

Radiological Protection Act, 1991

(No. 9 of 1991), hereby order as follows