Radiation Protection (Ionising Radiation) Regulations 2023
Table of Contents
Enacting Formula
Part 1 PRELIMINARY
1 Citation and commencement
2 Definitions
Part 2 EXEMPTIONS AND CLEARANCE
3 Exemptions
4 Clearance
Part 3 PRACTICES NOT JUSTIFIED
5 Practices not justified
6 Human imaging for detecting concealed objects not justified
7 Exposure of human in biomedical research or clinical trials not justified
Part 4 LICENCES
8 Purposes of licence
9 Single licence for multiple apparatus or materials under charge of same licensee
10 Application for licence
11 Licence fees
12 Licence conditions
13 Cancellation, suspension or variation of licence
14 Register of licences
Part 5 RADIATION WORKER REGISTRATION
15 Age requirement
16 Requirements for engaging in radiation work
Part 6 RESPONSIBILITIES OF LICENSEES
17 Responsibility of licensee
18 Submission of reports or documents
19 Appointment of radiation safety officer
Part 7 LABELLING OF IRRADIATING APPARATUS AND RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
20 Labelling of irradiating apparatus
21 Labelling of radioactive materials
22 Labelling of radiation areas
23 Requirements for labels
Part 8 SUPPLY OF IRRADIATING APPARATUS AND RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS AND STORAGE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
24 Sale and supply of irradiating apparatus and radioactive materials
25 Precautions for safe storage and keeping of radioactive materials
Part 9 ACCOUNTING FOR AND INTERNAL TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS AND CHECKING OF SEALED SOURCES
26 Accounting for radioactive materials
27 Internal transport of sealed sources
28 Internal transport of unsealed sources
29 Checking of leakage or breakage of sealed source
Part 10 OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
30 General responsibilities of employers and licensees
31 Cooperation between employers and licensees
32 Classification of areas
33 Internal or corporate rules and procedures and personal protective equipment
34 Monitoring of workplaces
35 Occupational exposure assessment
36 Records of worker exposure
37 Workers’ health surveillance
38 Information, instruction and training
39 Special arrangements for female employees and workers and for persons below 18 years of age undergoing training
Part 11 MEDICAL EXPOSURE
40 General responsibilities of licensees
41 Optimisation of protection for medical exposures
42 Dose constraints
43 Pregnant or breastfeeding patients
44 Release of patients after radiological procedures involving radionuclides
45 Unintended and accidental medical exposure
46 Records related to medical exposures
Part 12 PUBLIC EXPOSURE
47 General responsibilities of licensees
48 Control of visitors
49 Sources of external irradiation
50 Contamination in areas accessible to members of public
51 Monitoring of public exposure
52 Consumer products
Part 13 RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
53 Application for approval to accumulate or transport radioactive waste
54 Amendment of condition, limitation or exception of approval
55 Responsibilities associated with management of radioactive waste
56 Security of radioactive waste
57 Control of radioactive waste generation
58 Radioactive waste characterisation and classification
59 Acceptance criteria for radioactive waste
60 Processing of radioactive waste from collection up to treatment
61 Conditioning of radioactive waste
62 Storage of radioactive waste
63 Discharge of radioactive materials to environment
64 Requirements for radioactive waste management facilities
Part 14 MANAGEMENT OF DISUSED SEALED SOURCES
65 Management of disused sealed sources
Part 15 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
66 Responsibilities of licensees and approved persons
67 Implementation of intervention
68 Protection of emergency workers
Part 16 SECURITY OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
69 Security measures
70 Duty to report breach of security measures
Part 17 RADIATION ACCIDENTS
71 Definition of radiation accident
72 Radiation accident in non‑medical application
73 Radiation accident in medical application
Part 18 MISCELLANEOUS
74 Prohibition of use of premises and irradiating apparatus or radioactive materials
75 Post‑mortem examination, cremation and embalming of corpses containing radioactive material
76 Calibration of monitors and dosimeters
77 Offences
78 Revocation, saving and transitional provisions