Causing radiation exposure from radiation practice
42 Causing radiation exposure from radiation practice
This section applies in relation to a radiation source for a radiation practice possessed under a possession licence.
A person, in carrying out the practice with the source, must not cause another person to receive a radiation dose higher than the radiation dose limit prescribed under a regulation.
Maximum penalty—500 penalty units.
Subsection (2) does not apply if—
the other person receives the dose while being a treated person; or
Editor’s note—
Section 41(3) deals with this situation.
the other person receives the dose while involved in carrying out a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure involving the irradiation of a person.
Editor’s note—
Section 41(5) deals with this situation.
This provision refers to the regulations (a regulation
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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