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The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. 1.Citation and commencement

  3. 2.Interpretation

  4. 3.Application

  5. 4.The Licensing Authority

  6. 5.Requirement to hold a licence

  7. 6.Employer’s duties: establishment of general procedures, protocols and quality assurance programmes

  8. 6A.Employer’s duties: co-operation between employers

  9. 7.Employer’s duties: clinical audit

  10. 8.Employer’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure

  11. 9.Relevant enforcing authority’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure

  12. 10.Duties of the practitioner, operator and referrer

  13. 11.Justification of individual exposures

  14. 12.Optimisation

  15. 13.Estimates of population doses

  16. 14.Expert advice

  17. 15.Equipment: general duties of the employer

  18. 16.Equipment installed on or after 6th February 2018

  19. 17.Training

  20. 18.Enforcement

  21. 19.Defence of due diligence

  22. 20.Revocation and transitional provision

  23. 21.Consequential amendments

  24. 22.Review

  25. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Licensing

      1. 1.Licence applications: general

      2. 2.Licence applications: indicative list of information

      3. 3.Licence applications: urgent cases

      4. 4.Licence applications: employer fees

      5. 5.Review

      6. 6.Destination of fees

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Employer’s Procedures

      1. 1.The employer’s written procedures for exposures must include procedures—

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Adequate Training

      1. 1.Practitioners and operators must have successfully completed training, including theoretical...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      Consequential amendments

      1. 1.Amendment of the Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004

      2. 2.Amendment of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012

      3. 3.Amendment of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017

  27. Explanatory Note

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