The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018

Authorisation conditions: manufacture and supply of high-activity sealed sourcesS

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24.  SEPA must ensure that a permit for a radioactive substances activity involving the manufacture or supply of a high-activity sealed source includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to—

(a)ensure that a source is identified by a unique number which, where practicable, must be engraved or stamped on the source;

(b)ensure either that a source container is engraved or stamped with the source's unique number or, if the container is a reusable transport container, that the container, at least, bears information on the nature of the source;

(c)ensure a source container and, where practicable, the source are marked and labelled with an appropriate sign to warn people of the radiation hazard; and

(d)require the manufacturer of the source to provide a photograph of each manufactured source design type and a photograph of the typical source container.