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4.—(1) Regulation 6 of the 2017 Regulations (employer's duties: establishment of general procedures, protocols and quality assurance programmes) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (5)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (a), for “medical exposures” substitute “exposures to which these Regulations apply”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (c)—
(i)in paragraph (i)—
(aa)the words before sub-paragraph (aa), for “regulation 3(a)” substitute “regulation 3(1)(a)”;
(bb)in sub-paragraph (bb), for the words from “European” to “levels” substitute “international and national diagnostic reference levels and local dose surveys”;
(ii)in paragraph (ii)—
(aa)for “regulation 3(b)” substitute “regulation 3(1)(b)”;
(bb)for “European” substitute “international”;
(cc)after “levels”, insert “and local dose surveys”;
(iii)in paragraph (iii)—
(aa)for “regulation 3(f)” substitute “regulation 3(1)(f)”;
(bb)after “practicable”, insert “, in which case regard must be had to local dose surveys where available;”
(c)after sub-paragraph (c), insert—
“(ca)regularly review and make available to an operator, dose reference levels in respect of radiotherapeutic procedures for typical localisation or verification exposures falling within regulation 3(1)(a), in which case, regard must be had to international and national dose reference levels and local dose surveys where available;”;
(d)in sub-paragraph (d)—
(i)after “establish dose constraints”, insert “for individual effective or equivalent doses over a defined appropriate time period — ”;
(ii)in paragraph (i), for “regulation 3(c)” substitute “regulation 3(1)(c)” and omit the final “and”;
(iii)in paragraph (ii), for “regulation 3(d)” substitute “regulation 3(1)(d)”;
(e)after sub-paragraph (d), insert—
“and
(e)conduct local dose surveys where practicable.”.
(3) Omit paragraph (6).
(4) In paragraph (7), after “diagnostic reference levels”, insert “or dose reference levels”.
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