Amendment of regulation 20 (addition of radioactive substances to personal ornaments, toys or cosmetics)14

1

Regulation 20 is amended as follows.

2

For the heading of regulation 20 substitute “Radioactive substances in personal ornaments, toys and cosmetics”.

3

In regulation 20, after paragraph (1) insert—

1A

A person must not—

a

carry out a practice involving the activation of materials used in toys or personal ornaments;

b

knowingly or recklessly import or export toys or personal ornaments in which materials have been activated;

c

knowingly or recklessly import or export materials that have been activated for use in toys or personal ornaments,

where that activation results, at the time of the placing on the market of the products or at the time of their manufacture, in an increase in activity which cannot be disregarded from a radiation protection point of view.