{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-38.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/229",
  "legislation_title": "The Ionising Radiations Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ionising-radiations-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/38",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Exemption certificates",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Executive may, by a certificate in writing, exempt—\n(a) any person or class of persons;\n(b) any premises or class of premises; or\n(c) any equipment, apparatus or substance or class of equipment, apparatus or substance,\nfrom any requirement or prohibition imposed by these Regulations and any such exemption may be granted subject to conditions and to a limit of time and may be revoked by a certificate in writing at any time.\n(2) The Executive shall not grant an exemption unless, having regard to the circumstances of the case and in particular to—\n(a) the conditions, if any, which it proposes to attach to the exemption; and\n(b) any other requirements imposed by or under any enactments which apply to the case,\nit is satisfied that—\n(c) the health and safety of persons who are likely to be affected by the exemption will not be prejudiced in consequence of it; and\n(d) compliance with the fundamental radiation protection provisions underlying regulations 9(1) and (2)(a), 12, 13(1), 17(1) and (3), 20(1), 21(1), 22(1), and 25(2) ... will be achieved.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 38(2)(d) inserted (6.2.2018) by The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/17), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 1(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 38(2)(d) omitted (6.2.2018) by virtue of The Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/17), reg. 1, Sch. 4 para. 1(6)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/229/regulation/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:50:47.956078+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."
}