{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-outside-workers-regulations-1993/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-outside-workers-regulations-1993/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2379",
  "legislation_title": "The Ionising Radiations (Outside Workers) Regulations 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-outside-workers-regulations-1993",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Duties of the outside worker",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of every outside worker—\n(a) to take reasonable care of the radiation passbook issued to him, and if it is lost report the loss forthwith to the outside undertaking and in such a case co-operate with the outside undertaking in any investigation made in accordance with regulation 5(4);\n(b) not to misuse the radiation passbook issued to him or falsify or attempt to falsify any of the information contained in it;\n(c) if he leaves the employment of the outside undertaking or the radiation passbook is full and requires renewal, forthwith to give the passbook to the outside undertaking; and\n(d) to make the radiation passbook available to the operator of any controlled area in which he undertakes activities and to take the passbook with him when his activities in that controlled area have been completed.\n(2) It shall also be the duty of the outside worker to take such steps as are reasonable for a person in his position to take to ensure that an estimate of the dose that he receives in the course of those activities is either entered in his passbook or notified to the outside undertaking.\n(3) Where an outside worker who has lost a passbook subsequently finds it, he shall forthwith report its finding to the outside undertaking and return that passbook to the undertaking.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2379/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:14.961861+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."
}