CHAPTER
319
IONISING RADIATIONS (WORKERS' PROTECTION) |
ARRANGEMENT OF
SECTIONS |
SECTION |
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Notification to Minister of work involving
exposure to radiation. |
Notification of date of installation of machines
or apparatus producing radiation. |
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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. | 12 of 1967
E.L.A.O., 1974 |
[Assent 27th June,
1967]
[Commencement 11th December, 1969] |
1. This Act may be cited as the Ionising Radiations
(Workers' Protection) Act. | Short title. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- | Interpretation. |
"ionising
radiations" means electro-magnetic radiation (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- | Notification to Minister of work involving exposure to
radiation. |
(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; |
(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, | Notification of date of installation of machines or
apparatus producing radiation. |
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. | Rules. |
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. | Penalty. |