Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Radioactive Substances (Hospitals) Exemption Order 1990. Apart from those updating references to other legislation, the amendments:

(a)

widen the definition of “waste collection authority” to include references to persons acting on behalf of such authorities;

(b)

extend the exemption from registration under section 7 of the Act for the keeping and use of open radioactive sources on hospital premises to premises in respect of which a registration under that section is in force in respect of closed sources only;

(c)

exclude from the provisions of section 13(1) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (“the Act”) (which prohibits the disposal of radioactive waste) the removal from hospital premises of solid or flammable liquid radioactive waste for burning on other premises in accordance with an authorisation under section 13 of that Act;

(d)

require the hospital operator, as a condition of exemption in the case of hospital waste removed for burning on other premises, to furnish the person by whom the waste is to be burnt with a document stating the sum total activity of the radionuclides in the waste.