The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) (Great Britain) Regulations 1996

Quality assurance programmes

24.—(1) It shall be the duty of the designer, manufacturer, consignor, carrier and user of any package, packaging or special form radioactive material to establish and maintain an adequate quality assurance programme to ensure that he complies with the requirements of these Regulations in relation to the design, manufacture, testing, documentation, use, maintenance, inspection, transport and in-transit storage of that package, packaging or material.

(2) Where these Regulations require a design or a shipment to be approved by the Secretary of State, no such approval shall be given until the Secretary of State is satisfied as to the adequacy of the quality assurance programme for that design or shipment.

(3) It shall be the duty of the designer, manufacturer, consignor and user of any package design, when so requested by the Secretary of State:

(a) to provide the Secretary of State with facilities to inspect the packaging during construction and use;

(b) to demonstrate to the Secretary of State that the construction methods and materials used for the construction of the packaging are in accordance with the approved design specifications; and

(c) to demonstrate to the Secretary of State that all packagings or special form radioactive material built to an approved design are periodically inspected and, as necessary, repaired and maintained in good condition so that they continue to comply with all the requirements of these Regulations, even after repeated use; and

(d) in the case of a design specification which has been fully implemented, to produce a certificate to that effect to the Secretary of State.