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PART 1Interpretation and General

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on 2nd August 2004.

Application

2.  These Regulations apply to practices only to the extent to which the [F12013] Directive applies to them.

Textual Amendments

Interpretation

3.—[F2(1) In these Regulations, “the 2013 Directive” means Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom laying down basic safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation, and repealing Directives 89/618/Euratom, 90/641/Euratom, 96/29/Euratom, 97/43/Euratom and 2003/122/Euratom.]

(2) Expressions and words used in both these Regulations and the [F32013] Directive have the same meaning for the purposes of these Regulations as they do in that Directive, whether or not they are defined in [F4Article 4] of that Directive.

(3) The following table shows other provisions defining expressions for the purposes of these Regulations—

F5. . .F5. . .
contravention noticeregulation 22(2)
existing class or type of practiceregulation 5(1)
found to be justifiedregulation 4(4)
[F6imaging practice regulation 21A(2)]
justification decisionregulations 4(3) and 14(1)
justifiedregulation 4(2)
Justifying Authorityregulation 6
new class or type of practice [F7regulations 4(1) and 20B]
Northern Irelandregulation 6(4)(e)
Northern Ireland departmentregulation 6(4)(f)
Scotlandregulation 6(4)(d)
Scottish Ministersregulation 6(4)(b)
transferred matterregulation 6(4)(c)
Walesregulation 6(4)(g).
[F8Welsh Ministers regulation 6(4)(h)]

Textual Amendments