RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1983 - REG 16

RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1983 - REG 16

16 .         Monitoring instruments

        (1)         A person in whose name any irradiating apparatus, electronic product or premises is or are registered shall provide such monitoring instruments as the Council directs in writing, within such period as the Council specifies in that direction, for detecting and measuring the type of radiation produced by that irradiating apparatus or electronic product or by any radioactive substance used, manufactured, stored, possessed or otherwise dealt with on those premises, as the case requires.

        (2)         Without limiting the generality of subregulation (1), a person who uses, manufactures, stores, possesses or otherwise deals with a radioactive substance —

            (a)         which is not enclosed in a sealed source shall, if so directed in writing by the Council, keep immediately available a monitoring instrument for detecting and measuring contamination by radioactive substances; or

            (b)         which is enclosed in a sealed source in a quantity which exceeds 4 megabecquerels or 1000 times the appropriate maximum quantity set out in the third column of Schedule V, whichever is the greater, shall keep immediately available a monitoring instrument for detecting and measuring the ionising radiation produced by that radioactive substance.