{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiation-medical-exposure-regulations-2017/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiation-medical-exposure-regulations-2017/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/1322",
  "legislation_title": "The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiation-medical-exposure-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations apply to the exposure of ionising radiation in England and Wales and Scotland—\n(a) to patients as part of their own medical diagnosis or treatment;\n(b) to individuals as part of health screening programmes;\n(c) to patients or other persons voluntarily participating in medical or biomedical, diagnostic or therapeutic, research programmes;\n(d) to carers and comforters;\n(e) to asymptomatic individuals;\n(f) to individuals undergoing a non-medical imaging a non-medical imaging exposure.\n(2) Regulation 21 and paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 4 apply to the exposure of ionising radiation in Northern Ireland.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 renumbered as reg. 3(1) (6.2.2018) by The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/121), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(1)(f) inserted (1.10.2024) by The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/896), regs. 1(2), 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(1)(f) substituted (1.10.2024) by The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/896), regs. 1(2), 3(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 3(2) inserted (6.2.2018) by The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/121), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 6.2.2018, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/1322/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:03:58.483618+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}