S.L. 653.5 Art. 67Enforcement.

(1) Any breach of any of these regulations or of the

Schedules or Appendices to these regulations shall be deemed an offence.

(2) In any proceedings for an offence under these regulations consisting of a failure to comply with a duty or requirement to do something, it shall be for the accused to prove (as the case may be) that it was not practicable to do more than was in fact done to satisfy the requirement or duty, or that there was no better practicable means than was in fact used to satisfy the duty or requirement.

(3) The enforcing regulatory authority for any breach of these regulations shall be as follows:

(a) the Occupational Health and Safety Authority shall enforce the relevant statutory provisions in Parts IV to XII, excluding regulation 19(4), and Part XV;

(b) the Superintendent of Public Health shall enforce the relevant statutory provisions in Part XIII;

(c) the Environment Protection Directorate shall enforce the relevant statutory provisions in regulation 19(4);

(d) the Civil Protection Department shall enforce any breach of regulations relating to intervention in Part XIV as a breach of the Civil Protection Act: Provided that any person found guilty of an offence in terms of Part II shall be considered to have breached the provisions of the National Interest (Enabling Powers) Act and be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred and sixteen thousand and four hundred and sixty-eight euro and sixty-seven cents (116,468.67). FIRST SCHEDULE

Regulation 17

PARTICULARS TO BE PROVIDED IN A NOTIFICATION UNDER REGULATION 17

following particulars shall be given in a notification under regulation 17: the name and address of the employer and a contact telephone or fax number or electronic mail address; the address of the premises where or from where the work activity is to be carried out and a telephone or fax number or electronic mail address at such premises; the nature of the business of the employer; characteristics of the source, as a minimum - the source term, total activity, date and place of manufacturing and physical and chemical form of the radioactive substance; into which of the following categories the source or sources of ionising radiation fall-

(i) sealed source;

(ii) unsealed radioactive substance;

(iii) electrical equipment; whether or not any source is to be used at premises other than the address given at sub-paragraph (b) above; dates of notitication and commencement of the work activity; and a written risk assessment pursuant to regulation 27.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Regulation 18 QUANTITIES AND CONCENTRATIONS OF RADIONUCLIDES

CRITERIA TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE APPLICATION OF REGULATION 18

practice or work activity may be exempted from the requirement to report further consideration, in compliance with regulation 18(1)(a) or (b) if either the quantity or the activity concentration, as appropriate, of the radionuclides does not exceed the values in column 2 or 3 of Table A. basic criteria for the calculation of the values in Table A, for the of exemptions for practices or work activities, are as follows: the radiological risks to individuals caused by the exempted practice or work activity are sufficiently low as to be of no regulatory concern; and the collective radiological impact of the exempted practice or work activity is sufficiently low as to be of no regulatory concern under the prevailing circumstances; and the exempted practice or work activity is inherently without radiological significance, with no appreciable likelihood that could lead to a failure to meet the criteria in (a) and