{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-information-for-radiation-emergencies-regulations-1992/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2997",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Information for Radiation Emergencies Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-information-for-radiation-emergencies-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Employer or self-employed person to supply prior information",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of an employer or a self-employed person who conducts an undertaking from which a radiation emergency is reasonably foreseeable—\n(a) to ensure that members of the public who are likely to be in an area in which, in the opinion of the Executive (having regard to any existing plans prepared by virtue of regulation 27 of the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985), they are liable to be affected by a radiation emergency arising from the undertaking of that employer or self-employed person, are supplied, in an appropriate manner, without their having to request it, with at least the information specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and\n(b) to make that information publicly available.\n(2) In preparing the information required to be supplied in accordance with paragraph (1) above, the employer or self-employed person shall consult each first tier local authority and second tier local authority in the area referred to in that paragraph, any authority likely to fall within paragraph 5 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations and such other persons who seem to him to be appropriate, but the employer or self-employed person shall remain responsible for the accuracy, completeness and form of the information so supplied.\n(3) Without prejudice to his duty under paragraph (1) above, the employer or selfemployed person shall endeavour to enter into an agreement with each second tier local authority in the area referred to in that paragraph for that authority to disseminate the information required to be supplied in accordance with that paragraph to the members of the public mentioned in it.\n(4) The employer or self-employed person shall ensure that the information supplied in accordance with paragraph (1) above is updated at regular intervals but, in any case, not less than once in three years and whenever significant changes to the emergency measures, action and authorities referred to in paragraphs 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 2 to these Regulations take place; when information is updated under this paragraph, it shall be supplied again in accordance with paragraph (1) above and made publicly available.\n(5) Where on the coming into force of these Regulations an employer or selfemployed person is conducting an existing undertaking from which a radiation emergency is reasonably foreseeable, it shall be sufficient compliance with paragraph (1) above if that employer or self-employed person supplies the required information and makes it publicly available within six months of the coming into force of these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/1333."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2997/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:10:53.466875+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."
}