The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) (Great Britain) Regulations 1996

Retention and production of information

26.—(1) The consignor of any consignment shall retain for 2 years from the date on which the transport of that consignment begins any information in his possession derived from measurements of contamination of that consignment.

(2) The designer, manufacturer, owner and user of any package, packaging or special form radioactive material shall retain any information in his possession relating to the design, manufacture, testing, use and maintenance of that package, packaging or material, including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) specifications, calculations, test results, quality assurance programmes and manufacturing records, for so long as the package, packaging or material is in use for the transport of radioactive material.

(3) An inspector may require the designer, manufacturer, owner, consignor or user of any package, packaging or special form radioactive material to produce such information in his possession relating to that package, packaging or material as the inspector may specify.