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Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2018
United Kingdom
The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018
At a glance
What's here
11 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Business-side actors with duties under this Act, ranked by how often they appear.
- Employer 8
- Any Person 3
Other Acts binding the same actors
For each actor bound by this Act, the other UK Acts that bind them most often. Useful for understanding the full compliance landscape facing each role.
Employers also bound by 694 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- The Income Tax (Pay As You Earn) Regulations 2003 2003 236 duties
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 1998 120 duties
- TULRCA 1992 1992 72 duties
- Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (current NI employment law) 1996 52 duties
- Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 2003 50 duties
Any Person also bound by 2337 other Acts (top 5 shown)
- Human Medicines Regulations 2012 2012 169 duties
- Merchant Shipping Act 1995 1995 144 duties
- Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 2016 101 duties
- Road Traffic Act 1988 1988 95 duties
- Air Navigation Order 2016 2016 95 duties
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
The employer’s written procedures for exposures must include procedures—
- Maintain written procedures covering all specified radiation exposure topics Employer
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Amendment of the Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017
Employer’s duties: establishment of general procedures, protocols and quality assurance programmes
- Establish and maintain written procedures, protocols, and quality assurance for medical radiation exposures Employer
Employer’s duties: clinical audit
- Include clinical audit in your employer's procedures Employer
Employer’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure
- Inform patients and notify regulators about significant accidental radiation exposures Employer
Duties of the practitioner, operator and referrer
- Referrers must supply sufficient medical data for radiation exposure justification Any Person
Justification of individual exposures
- Do not carry out medical exposure without justification and authorisation Any Person
Optimisation
- Establish procedures to keep radiation doses as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP) in medical exposures Employer
Estimates of population doses
- Collect and provide dose estimates from medical radiation exposures Employer
Equipment: general duties of the employer
- Implement equipment quality assurance and keep inventory for medical radiological equipment Employer
Training
- Keep training records for staff carrying out medical radiation exposures Employer
Browse 12 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation and commencement
Interpretation
Application
The Licensing Authority
Requirement to hold a licence
Relevant enforcing authority’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure
Expert advice
Equipment installed on or after 6th February 2018
Enforcement
Defence of due diligence
Revocation and transitional provision
Consequential amendments
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