- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Prosecution 1 of 16 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 15 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
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
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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.
- Hold a licence for administering radioactive substancesEmployer
- Co-operate with other employers on radiation exposure informationEmployer
- Establish procedures and quality assurance for medical radiation exposureEmployer
Unlimited fine
- Establish and conduct clinical audits for medical radiation exposureEmployer
- Investigate and report accidental or unintended radiation exposureEmployer
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Regulators must share lessons learned from significant radiation eventsStatutory regulator
- Ensure staff follow procedures and cooperate during medical radiation exposureOperator
- Justify and authorise every medical radiation exposureAny Person
- Optimise radiation doses and provide patient safety informationOperator
- Collect and report population dose estimates for medical radiationEmployer
- Appoint and involve a Medical Physics Expert (MPE)Employer
- Maintain and test ionising radiation equipmentEmployer
- Ensure staff are trained and maintain detailed training recordsEmployer
10 other provisions — procedural and definitional
Schedules
3 of 12 shown- Apply for a licence and notify changes to the licensing authorityAny Person
- Maintain written procedures for all medical exposures to ionising radiationEmployer
- Complete relevant training in medical radiation exposureOperator
9 other schedules
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Run a healthcare business
Ongoing compliance for CQC-registered healthcare providers covering inspections, professional registration, safeguarding, clinical governance, medicines management, and staff obligations
Respond to a medicines or controlled drugs incident
What to do when a medicines incident occurs: medication error, controlled drug discrepancy, or CD theft/loss. Covers securing the patient and evidence, …
Placing a medical device on the GB market
End-to-end learning path for manufacturers bringing a medical device to the Great Britain market for the first time. Covers pre-market steps (classification, …
Selling medical devices in both GB and Northern Ireland
How to achieve dual-market access for medical devices across Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Covers the different regulatory frameworks, marking options, conformity …
Responding to a medical device safety incident
Immediate actions when a serious incident occurs involving your medical device. Covers incident identification, reporting timeline determination, MORE portal submission, investigation requirements, …
2 more guides that reference this instrument
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.