RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1983 - REG 34

RADIATION SAFETY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS 1983 - REG 34

34 .         Exemption from licensing in relation to irradiating apparatus

        (1)         The following persons are exempt for the purposes of sections 25 and 27 of the Act —

            (a)         a dentist or other person authorised by regulation 38(1) operating or using irradiating apparatus registered for dental radiography; and

            (b)         a physiotherapist or chiropractor who refers a patient to a radiologist at approved premises for plain radiography of the spine, pelvic girdle, hip joints, sacro‑iliac joints, chest, shoulder or extremities; and

            (c)         a podiatrist who refers a patient to a radiologist at approved premises for plain radiography of the foot or ankle; and

            (d)         a person operating or using irradiating apparatus in respect of which there is an exemption from registration under the Act; and

            (e)         a dentist who refers a patient to a radiologist at approved premises for plain radiography of the chest where the dentist believes that the patient may have inhaled or swallowed a foreign body during, or as a result of, dental treatment.

        [Regulation 34 inserted: Gazette 11 Nov 1997 p. 6210‑11; amended: Gazette 29 Feb 2000 p. 992; 25 Sep 2001 p. 5286.]