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RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1983 - REG 32

RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1983 - REG 32

32 .         Records, reports and notifications relating to radioactive substances

        (1)         A licensee shall in such manner as is approved maintain records of the amounts, kinds, movements and dispositions of radioactive substances used, manufactured, stored, transported, sold, possessed or otherwise dealt with by him.

        (2)         The person in whose name any premises are registered shall maintain records in such manner as is approved of the amounts, kinds, movements and dispositions of radioactive substances —

            (a)         in respect of which an exemption has been granted; and

            (b)         used, manufactured, stored, transported, sold, possessed or otherwise dealt with on, to or from, as the case requires, those premises.

        (3)         Whenever a radioactive substance specified in the second column of Schedule V and in a quantity exceeding 100 times the maximum quantity specified opposite to that radioactive substance in the third column of that Schedule is unintentionally released, the licensee in respect thereof or, if that licensee does not have immediate control of that radioactive substance, the person having immediate control thereof shall report full particulars of that release to the Council within 7 days of learning of that release.

        (4)         The person in whose name any premises in, to or from, as the case requires, which a radioactive substance is or has been used, manufactured, stored, transported, sold, possessed or otherwise dealt with are registered shall, not less than 15 days before those premises are vacated, notify the Council in writing that those premises are to be vacated.

        (5)         On receipt of notification under subregulation (4) the Council may require in writing the person in whose name the premises concerned are registered to cause those premises to be decontaminated within such period as the Council specifies to a degree consistent with the use of those premises for purposes other than the use, manufacture, storage, transport, sale, possession or other dealing with radioactive substances and that person shall comply with that requirement.

        (6)         In the case of loss of or damage to a radioactive source, the licensee in respect of the radioactive substance concerned or, if that licensee does not have immediate control of that radioactive substance, the person having immediate control thereof shall, immediately on learning of that loss or damage, report that loss or damage to the Council.