Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
“adequate training” means tuition leading to competence in radiation protection and appropriate instruction, including practical experience, in the diagnostic or therapeutic techniques to be used; and the expression “adequately trained” shall be similarly construed;
“clinically directing” means having clinical responsibility for the decision to effect a medical exposure;
“medical exposure” means exposure of a person to ionising radiation for a diagnostic or therapeutic purpose;
“patient” means a person undergoing medical examination or treatment;
“physically directing” means effecting the medical exposure; and the expression “a person physically directing a medical exposure” shall include a person acting in accordance with the directions of a doctor or dentist for the purposes of regulation 2 of the Medicines (Administration of Radioactive Substances) Regulations 1978(1);
“radioactive medicinal product” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Medicines (Administration of Radioactive Substances) Regulations 1978.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations any reference to an employer shall include a reference to a self-employed person and any duty imposed by these Regulations on an employer in respect of an employee shall extend to a self-employed person in respect of himself.
S.I. 1978/1006.