The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Citation and commencement

3. 2. Interpretation

4. 3. Application

5. 4. The Licensing Authority

6. 5. Requirement to hold a licence

7. 6. Employer’s duties: establishment of general procedures, protocols and quality assurance programmes

8. 7. Employer’s duties: clinical audit

9. 8. Employer’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure

10. 9. Relevant enforcing authority’s duties: accidental or unintended exposure

11. 10. Duties of the practitioner, operator and referrer

12. 11. Justification of individual exposures

13. 12. Optimisation

14. 13. Estimates of population doses

15. 14. Expert advice

16. 15. Equipment: general duties of the employer

17. 16. Equipment installed on or after 6th February 2018

18. 17. Training

19. 18. Enforcement

20. 19. Defence of due diligence

21. 20. Revocation and transitional provision

22. 21. Consequential amendments

23. 22. Review

24. Signature

25. 1. SCHEDULE 1

       Licensing

       1. 1. Licence applications: general

       2. 2. Licence applications: indicative list of information

       3. 3. Licence applications: urgent cases

       4. 4. Licence applications: employer fees

       5. 5. Review

       6. 6. Destination of fees

    2. SCHEDULE 2

       Employer’s Procedures

       1. 1. The employer’s written procedures for exposures must include procedures—

    3. SCHEDULE 3

       Adequate Training

       1. 1. Practitioners and operators must have successfully completed training, including theoretical...

    4. SCHEDULE 4

       Consequential amendments

       1. 1. Amendment of the Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004

       2. 2. Amendment of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012

       3. 3. Amendment of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017

26. Explanatory Note