The Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation (Amendment) Regulations 2018

New Part 6A (practices involving consumer products)

15.  After regulation 20 insert—

“Part 6A Practices involving consumer products

Justification of classes or types of practice involving consumer products

20A.— (1) Any person intending to manufacture or import a consumer product for which the intended use is likely to belong to a new class or type of practice must, prior to commencing manufacture or import, make an application to the Justifying Authority under regulation 9 in respect of the intended use of the consumer product and provide to the Justifying Authority the information listed in paragraph 1 of Schedule A1.

(2) In making a justification decision in respect of a new class or type of practice involving the use of a consumer product, the Justifying Authority must take into account the information provided under paragraph (1) and must assess the factors listed in paragraph 2 of Schedule A1.

(3) A person must not sell or make available to the public a consumer product where—

(a) its intended use would constitute a contravention of regulation 4(5) or 5(3); or

(b) its intended use would constitute a practice and that practice would not satisfy the criteria described in any of the categories listed in paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017(1).

Classes or types of practice involving the activations of material in consumer products

20B.   A class or type of practice involving activation of material resulting in an increase in activity in a consumer product, which at the time of placing that consumer product on the market cannot be disregarded from a radiation protection point of view, is “new” for the purposes of these Regulations if that class or type of practice has not been found to be justified.”

(1)

S.I. 2017/1075.