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Without prejudice to Part I of this Schedule, the dose for individual organs or tissues, being the sum of the following dose quantities resulting from exposure to ionising radiation, namely the dose equivalent from external radiation, the dose equivalent from contamination and the committed dose equivalent from that year’s intake of radio-nuclides averaged throughout any individual organ or tissue (other than the lens of the eye) or any body extremity or over any area of skin, shall in the period of one year immediately following the occurrence be 50 mSv.