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RADIATION (SAFETY CONTROL) ACT - SECT 27

Excessive doses to be reported

27. Excessive doses to be reported

An employer of a radiation worker and a person in charge of a place in which irradiating apparatus or a radioactive substance is used -

(a) who has cause to suspect that a person has received (other than as a patient undergoing treatment) a dose equivalent in excess of 200 millirems per week or that some unusual occurrence has taken place in or about a source of ionizing radiation; or

(b) who becomes aware that a personal monitoring device has recorded in respect of a person a dose equivalent exceeding 200 millirems per week,

shall report the fact to the Chief Health Officer forthwith.



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