The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

1Citation and commencement

2Interpretation

4The Licensing Authority

5Requirement to hold a licence

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

7Employer’s duties: clinical audit

8Employer’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure

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

10Duties of the practitioner, operator and referrer

11Justification of individual exposures

13Estimates of population doses

14Expert advice

15Equipment: general duties of the employer

16Equipment installed on or after 6th February 2018

19Defence of due diligence

20Revocation and transitional provision

21Consequential amendments

SCHEDULE 1Licensing

1Licence applications: general

2Licence applications: indicative list of information

3Licence applications: urgent cases

4Licence applications: employer fees

6Destination of fees

SCHEDULE 2Employer’s Procedures

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

SCHEDULE 3Adequate Training

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

SCHEDULE 4Consequential amendments

1Amendment of the Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

2018 No. 17

Health And Safety

The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Made1st February 2018

Coming into operation6th February 2018

The Department of Health1, being a designated Department2 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19723 in relation to safety measures in regard to radioactive substances and the emission of ionising radiation, in exercise of the powers conferred by that section and by section 56 of the Finance Act 19734; and with the consent of the Department of Finance in respect of the powers conferred by section 56, makes the following Regulations: