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IONISING RADIATIONS (WORKERS’ PROTECTION) CHAPTER 319

IONISING RADIATIONS (WORKERS’ PROTECTION)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

SECTION

1. Short title. 2. Interpretation. 3. Notification to Minister of work involving exposure to radiation. 4. Notification of date of installation of machines or apparatus producing radiation. 5. Rules. 6. Penalty.

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CHAPTER 319

IONISING RADIATIONS (WORKERS’ PROTECTION)

An Act to require notification of undertakings involving exposure to ionising radiations for the protection of workers involved therein.

[Assent 27th June, 1967] [Commencement 11th December, 1969]

1. This Act may be cited as the Ionising Radiations (Workers’ Protection) Act.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — “ionising radiations” means electro-magnetic radia-

tion (that is to say X-ray or gamma ray protons or quanta) or corpuscular radiation (that is to say, alpha particles, beta particles, electrons, positions, protons, neutrons or heavy particles) being electro-magnetic radiation or corpuscular radiation capable of producing ions and emitted from a machine or apparatus which is intended to produce ionising radiations, or from a machine or apparatus in which electrons are accelerated by a voltage of at least five kilovolts;

“Minister” means the Minister responsible for Public Health;

“proprietor”, in relation to an undertaking, includes any person for the time being having the management or control or receiving the profits of the business carried on in such undertaking, or employing any person engaged in such business.

3. Every proprietor of an undertaking shall — (a) before commencing therein for the first time any

work involving the possible exposure to ionising radiations of any person employed or engaged in such work, give to the Minister not less than one month’s notice in writing of the intended commencement of such work;

12 of 1967 E.L.A.O., 1974

Short title.

Interpretation.

E.L.A.O., 1974.

Notification to Minister of work involving exposure to radiation.

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(b) where at the coming into force of this Act any work as aforesaid is carried on, within one month of the commencement of this Act notify the Minister in writing of the carrying on of such work,

and in either case shall furnish to the Minister such particulars as the Minister may require:

Provided that in the case of an undertaking coming within paragraph (b) hereof, the proprietor shall furnish the required particulars within one month after being requested so to do.

4. Without prejudice to the operation of section 3 of this Act, any person who proposes to install, or cause to be installed, on any premises for use in any undertaking, any machine or apparatus capable of producing or emitting ionising radiations, shall give to the Minister not less than one month’s notice in writing of the proposed date of that installation,

5. The Minister may make rules for the carrying into effect of the objects of this Act and in particular but without prejudice to the foregoing to provide for the protection of persons employed or engaged in the use of ionising radiations.

6. Any person who contravenes any provision of section 3 or section 4 of this Act or of any rules made under section 5 thereof shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

Notification of date of installation of machines or apparatus producing radiation.

Rules.

Penalty.