Northern Ireland Statutory Rule SI 2018/17 United Kingdom

The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Employer8 Any Person3

Other Acts binding the same actors

If a role above is yours, these are the other instruments that most often bind it.

Employer — also bound by 682 other Acts
TULRCA 1992 72 duties
Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.006 Employer’s duties: establishment of general procedures, protocols and quality assurance programmes Regulated
  • Establish and maintain written procedures, protocols, and quality assurance for medical radiation exposuresEmployer
s.007 Employer’s duties: clinical audit Regulated
  • Include clinical audit in your employer's proceduresEmployer
s.008 Employer’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure Regulated
  • Inform patients and notify regulators about significant accidental radiation exposuresEmployer
s.010 Duties of the practitioner, operator and referrer Regulated
  • Referrers must supply sufficient medical data for radiation exposure justificationAny Person
s.011 Justification of individual exposures Regulated
  • Do not carry out medical exposure without justification and authorisationAny Person
s.012 Optimisation Regulated
  • Establish procedures to keep radiation doses as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) in medical exposuresEmployer
s.013 Estimates of population doses Regulated
  • Collect and provide dose estimates from medical radiation exposuresEmployer
s.015 Equipment: general duties of the employer Regulated
  • Implement equipment quality assurance and keep inventory for medical radiological equipmentEmployer
s.017 Training Regulated
  • Keep training records for staff carrying out medical radiation exposuresEmployer
12 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation and commencement
s.002 Interpretation
s.003 Application
s.004 The Licensing Authority
s.005 Requirement to hold a licence
s.009 Relevant enforcing authority’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure
s.014 Expert advice
s.016 Equipment installed on or after 6th February 2018
s.018 Enforcement
s.019 Defence of due diligence
s.020 Revocation and transitional provision
s.021 Consequential amendments
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch001 Licence applications: general Regulated
  • Apply for a licence and provide required informationAny Person
s.sch002 The employer’s written procedures for exposures must include procedures— Regulated
  • Maintain written procedures covering all specified radiation exposure topicsEmployer
7 other schedules
s.sch001 Licence applications: indicative list of information
s.sch001 Licence applications: urgent cases
s.sch001 Licence applications: employer fees
s.sch001 Review
s.sch001 Destination of fees
s.sch003 Practitioners and operators must have successfully completed training, including theoretical...
s.sch004 Amendment of the Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017

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