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Law On Radiation Protection And Use Of Radiation [Radiation Protection Act]

Original Language Title: Lov om strålevern og bruk av stråling [strålevernloven]

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Law of the straw liver and use of radiation [ the beam-liver law ].

Date LAW-2000--05-12-36
Ministry of Health and custody ministry
Last modified LO-2015 -12-18-123 from 01.01.2016
Published In 2000 booklet 11
Istrontrecation 01.07.2000
Changing LO-1938-06-18-1
Announcement
Card title Radiation law-stvl.

Capital overview :

Jf. former law 18 June 1938 # 1.

Chapter I. Foregoal, Scope and Definitions

SECTION 1. Law's purpose

The purpose of this law is to prevent harmful effects of radiation on human health and contribute to the protection of the environment.

SECTION 2. Law's sacrational scope

The law comes to the Applicability of any effect, import, export, transport, transfer, possession, installation, use, handling and waste disposal of radiation sources.

The law further comes to the Applicability of Human Activity which entails elevated natural ionising radiation from its surroundings.

The law also applies planning and readiness against accidents, accidents and other events.

0 Modified by law 17 June 2005 # 82.
SECTION 3. Definitions

In this law means

a) radiation : Ionising and non-ionising radiation.
b) ionising radiation : Radiation from radioactive fabric, X-ray radiation and particle radiation.
c) non-ionising radiation : Optical radiation, radio frequency radiation, electrical and magnetic fields or other radiation with equivalent biological effects as well as ultrasound.
d) Radiation sources : Radioactive substances, goods or equipment contain such substances as well as facilities, appliances, or equipment that can produce radiation.
e) medical radiation use : Applicability of radiation on humans at medical examination and treatment, in research and by investigations into legal context.
f) waste disposal : Any charge of radiation sources after end use, herding storage, emissions, resettlement, return arrangement or treatment as ordained waste.
SECTION 4. Lovens site-real scope

The King may in regulation decide that the law shall apply to Svalbard, Jan Mayen and Norwegian car and, and can determine the shonest rules of the site's conditions.

The law applies to the device and any facilities placed on the Norwegian part of the continental and on Norwegian ships and aircraft in areas that are not undergiven any other state's high.

Chapter II. General provisions

SECTION 5. Defense requirements and basic principles of use of radiation

Any impact, import, export, transport, transfer, possession, installation, use, handling and waste disposal of radiation sources should be justifiable, so that there is no risk of them that exercising business, other people or the environment. Also human activity that entails elevated natural ionising radiation from its surroundings should be justifiable. By assessment of the defense, it should be placed among other emphasis on whether the benefits of business exceed those risk in which the radiation can result, and whether the business is targeted so that acute health damage is avoided and the risk of senharm is kept as low as of equitable can be achieved. Radiation is not supposed to exceed the set limits.

Apparat or device that can yield radiation should have a defensible design and function.

SECTION 6. Approval and Message

The Ministry of Justice can in regulation determine whether approval or message for the effect, import, export, transport, possession, installation, use, handling and waste disposal of radiation sources. Approvals or message requirements can also include human activity that entails elevated natural ionising radiation. In the regulations, it can be determined requirements for the content of applications and messages.

If approval or message requirements are determined, business subject to such claims cannot be initiated until approval has been issued, or message has been processed. A business cannot be extended or changes significantly in relation to consisting of approval or message.

SECTION 7. Training and Education

In business as retainers of the law, the employees and other affiliates shall be required to extent have education or training, which ensure they have adequate qualifications or knowledge within straw liver and secure use of radiation.

Visitors and others with access to the business should, if necessary for consideration of straw liver, be given enlightenment about what precautions must be overheld.

The Ministry can determine filler regulations on education, qualification requirements and training for people who are invoking or coming in contact with radiation.

SECTION 8. Vernemeasures

Effective as the subject of the law shall hit necessary measures to protect the employees, other associated persons, and the environment against radiation. People like because of low-age, pregnancy, or for other reasons is particularly sensitive to radiation, should either be given workloads that do not involve exposure to radiation, or vernes through other egedown protection measures.

The Ministry can determine filler regulations regarding conditions referred to in the first clause, herunder about age limits for work on radiation, as well as about medical examination for people exposed to radiation.

SECTION 9. Steacher signs of radioactive waste and radiation-rewarding appliances that are taken out of use

In order to secure a beam-based safe disposal of radioactive waste, the ministry can determine filler regulations on storage, deposits, emissions, return arrangements and treatment as ordinary waste. In the regulations, it can be determined duty for suppliers of radioactive substances to establish return arrangements for radioactive waste, and the duty of enterprises to establish and utilize such return arrangements. The provisions of this clause also apply to waste, equipment, or packaging that contains or is contaminated by radioactive substances.

When appliances or equipment that can produce radiation, be discarded or finally set out of operation, the owner or the supervisor shall prevent later harmful use by ensuring that appliances or equipment can no longer be able to provide radiation.

SECTION 10. Natural ionising radiation

The Ministry of Justice can at regulation determine limitations, herunder dosing limits, for work or stay in places where radiation levels from natural occurring ionization radiation are elevated as a result of human activity.

SECTION 11. Internacontrol

The king can further provide further regulations on Internet control and Internet control systems to ensure that the claims determined in or in the co-hold of this law be overheld.

SECTION 12. Prescription of the defensible straw liver and use of radiation m.v.

In order to promote the purpose of the law and ensure defensible beam liver and use of radiation, the ministry can determine regulations to the padding of the provisions of this Act. In the regulations, it can be among other claims to

a) The organization of the beam-liver, herding the radiating of the beam-delivery officer, as well as requirements for registration of necessary information for internet control or probation purposes.
b) screen offerings in terms of construction and device of premises and workplace, work procedures and the use of personalized protective equipment. It can also be claimed to the beam-rewarding asset design and function.
c) marking the radiation sources and enlightenment of the Applicability, handling and storage of radiation sources. It can further face claims of warning sources in premises or areas where there are radiation sources or radioactive waste that can result in a risk of health. Similarly, it can be claimed to enlighten affected people and the public about ray use and straw liver.
d) measurement of radiation levels, herunder the persondometry.
e) dosage limits for relevant types of radiation.
f) transport of radiation sources, herunder radioactive waste and equipment confinement such sources.
g) follow-up of conservation measures in connection with the completion of repair, maintenance, or modification of the beam source or facilities.

Chapter III. Smost separate regulations on medical radiation use

SECTION 13. Entitled and optimization

Medical radiation use shall be conducted in accordance with medical recognized and defensible examination and treatment methods, hernication of beam liver n.

By medical radiation use, the skilled responsible consideration of whether the use of radiation is warranted. Upon assessment, it should be taken into account whether the innovation value exceeds the harmful impact the radiation can have. It shall be taken into account of the individual benefit, the benefit of society and the possibility of invoking alternative techniques. Radiation should be avoided if one without essential disadvantage can achieve the same result differently, e.g., by using other methods or by providing results from previous investigations.

When radiation uses, it shall be skilled responsible for the examination or treatment ensuring that the threads of beam provided, are as low as with equitable can be achieved, set on background of the purpose of the irradiation, available assets and resources, and similar relationship.

The business is to periodically verify that the calculated beam-down is in accordance with the one that is actually avaliable. This does not apply to the examination or treatment that consists of radioactive substances to be attributed to the patient.

The Ministry can provide filler regulations on the requirements of medical radiation use.

SECTION 14. Pliked to illuminate for straw liver-patient precautions

If it at medical radiation use meet beam measures that assume a specific performance from the person who is examined or processed, it shall be skilled responsible or the person who is belaminable, enlighten how to relate to have full benefit of the measures. The same is true to accompanying companions who are assisting the person at the treatment or examination. Information that mentioned can be neglected, if there is no reason to count on the person to be able to be useful to them.

Tilled patients radioactive substances, it shall be skilled responsible for the awareness of precautions that should be observed to protect other people against radiation.

The Ministry can provide filler regulations on the duty of the duty to illuminate for the beam of beam-based precautions.

Chapter IV. Planning of the unlucky and accident management. Beredhood

SECTION 15. Planning and information alike

The Ministry can in regulation or single-attach enterprises that are retaken by the law, a planning service for handling accidents and accidents, as well as claims for the preservation of exercises. Attaches may include duty to give message to agencies in the rescue service and the regulatory authority on particular risks in which the rescue service and the regulatory authority should be familiar with, to deal with accidents or accidents.

The business can be placed to give message to physical and legal persons in the enterprise close environment of particular risks that may occur. Physical and legal persons who did not exercise a business being revisited by this law, but which may be afflicted by accidental accidents or accidents, can be placed on a sovereign duty to plan how possible damage effects can be restricted.

By accident or incident at nuclear facilities or during the transport of nuclear substance that entails imminent threat to the health or environment, it shall be the organ that has responsibility for nuclear preparedness or State's straw-proof that the population immediately is given information that makes it possible to hit measures to prevent or reduce damage. In case of the conflict between information alike after this provision and secrecy by law 12. May 1972 # 28 about nuclear energy business Section 53, the information service runs ahead. In such cases, the privacy of the extent shall be maintained in the extent that this is not to the obstacles that information duties are met. The Ministry can hit the ordinance of the review of information duties.

0 Modified by laws 12 apr 2002 # 9 (ikr. 1 July 2002 ifg res. 12 apr 2002 # 356), 17 June 2005 No. 82.
SECTION 16. Nuclear readiness

The king organizes a readiness for nuclear accidents and other events that could involve ionizing radiation or propagation of radioactivity, to protect life, health, environment or other important community interests.

In the emergency phase of an event as described in the first clause, the King, without the obstacle of government allocation in other laws, impose state and municipal organs to conduct evacuation, additionally limitation to areas, as well as measures related to the safeguards of nutrients, herunder drinking water and protection of animals. The king can further impose private and public enterprises to conduct analysis and obtain information for assessment of the situation.

The king can further, without the obstacle of government allocation in other legislation, delegating its authority after other clause to the special government organ for nuclear readiness.

Notes of tasks in nuclear preparedness duties to comply with co-arranged plant creation.

The king can impose people with central hot-spare tasks to be available in case of a hot-spare situation incomes.

0 Modified by law 17 June 2005 # 82.
SECTION 17. Smost separate exceptions to rescue and civilian emergency situations and by defense consideration

The king may in regulation determine exceptions from dossier and other requirements stipulate in or in co-hold of this Act for situations in which the completion of the rescue or civilian emergency operation makes this necessary. Labor shall not be ordered to be ordered to tasks that involve danger of acute radiation damage.

The king can then make exceptions from regulations stipulating in or in co-hold of this law in cases where it is necessary for consideration of the defense preparedness.

Chapter V. Administrative provisions, Penalty and Commencement

SECTION 18. Access and ordinance. Regulatory Authority's right to access, information and review of measurements

The Health Directorate is supervising that regulations stipulled in or in co-hold of this law be overheld, and can for this purpose grasp the necessary single-pass.

The king can for further refined areas of regulation determine that other government-based organizations or municipatics should be supervising and hit the necessary individual ordinance of the co-hold of this law. Public organs assigned to the authority in the co-hold of the first period can be allowed to enforcement law enforcement regulations on the terms of which are set forth in the individual provision.

Regulatory authority shall be given free admission to conduct supervision, and shall be given the information necessary for the regulatory authority to be able to protect their to-do items by this law.

The parole authority is to be given access to conduct measurements and investigations. The business shall refrain samples for probation purposes-free of charge. If it is imposed on the violation of regulations stipulator in or in the co-operation of this Act, the business can be placed to cover expenses of probation duties as follows by the violation.

The Ministry can in regulation determine fees for coverage of specific probation tasks.

0 Modified by law 18 des 2015 # 121 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).
SECTION 19. Correction and stansing

The Health Directorate may require correction of business that contrasting regulations stipulating in or in the co-hold of this law.

The provision of essential health risk, the Health Directorate can halt business, seize substances or equipment completely or in part, or otherwise ensure that continued use is not possible. The Health Directorate may require a business closed if not necessary approval or message has been issued.

Police duties after the request to assist at stansing and seizure

0 Modified by law 18 des 2015 # 121 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).
Section 19 a. Beat and destruction of illegal imported laser pointers

Laser pointers that are imported in violation of Section 6 with regulations can be withheld, seized and destroyed.

Upon hold, the recipient shall be notified that the laser pointer will be assessed seized and destroyed. The recipient shall be given the opportunity to comment within a further specified deadline.

If the recipient does not emit the statement by the deadline, the laser pointer can be seized and destroyed without the Management Act Section 23, 24, 25, and 27 are coming to the Applicability.

The king can give regulation on the completion of this determination, herunder determining deadlines for giving feedback on notice given after other clauses.

The king can in regulation make exceptions from the clasone over the ordinance authored in the co-hold of this determination.

0 Added by law 18 des 2015 # 123 (ikr. 1 jan 2016 ifg. res. 18 des 2015 # 1587).
SECTION 20. Import and restatement ban

The Health Directorate may refuse import or inflow of any product or substance and any commodity that can cause a health or environmental risk due to radiation, provided that this does not violate international agreements that Norway has been rejoined.

0 Modified by law 18 des 2015 # 121 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).
SECTION 21. Compulsive

The parole board can be illaked a business obsessive in terms of disposable or running day-crumbling, if it oversits a due date for migrant an injunction. The order donut shall be determined either at the same time with the injunction or in connection with determining new deadline for compliance.

The king can be dropped illaked obsessive when there is reasonable.

The Ministry can provide filler regulations on the illegsm and calculation of compulsifying.

SECTION 22. Commaking

The county's decision is complaining of individual ordinance met by the municipality in the co-hold of this law. The Ministry decides complaints about the other individual ordinance hit in the co-hold of this law.

0 Modified by laws 13 des 2002 # 78 (ikr. 1 jan 2003 ifg res. 13 des 2002 # 1600), 29 aug 2003 No. 1 87 (ikr. 1 sep 2003 ifg. res. 29 aug 2003 No. 1 1092), 17 June 2005 No. 82, 18 des 2015 # 121 (ikr. 1 jan 2016).
SECTION 23. Punishment

The act of intentional or negligent regulations or injunction granted in or in the co-hold of this law is punishable by fines or imprisonment for up to 3 months.

If the violation has or could have co-led serious danger of health or environment, prison can be imprisoned for up to 2 years of use.

Has the violation only led to negligible damage or disadvantage, the public is happening only after the petition of the regulatory authority.

0 Modified by law 19 June 2015 # 65 (ikr. 1 oct 2015).
SECTION 24 Ipowertrecation m.v.

This law takes effect from the time the King decides. 1

From the same time, the law will be repea June 1938 # 1 about the use of X-ray rays and radium m.v.

Regulations as well as other regulations and ordinance provided with home law in law 18. June 1938 # 1 If the use of X-ray rays and radium m.v. also applies after the law here is in effect, so far they do not violate regulations granted in or in the co-hold of this law.

1 From 1 July 2000 ifg. res. 12 May 2000 # 432.
SECTION 25. Changes in other laws

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