B 14
CAP. 303]
Radiation (Control of Irradiating Apparatus) Regulations
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
(c) a record of all such measurements is kept by the licensee and is open to inspection by any person authorized by the Board for that purpose.
(2) No person shall use a radiation dosemeter or a radiation dose-rate meter for any determination made in accordance with subregulation (1), unless it is independent of, or corrected for, the quality of radiation within the range for which it is designed or used, and is provided with suitable arrangements for checking its ability to reproduce its readings.
(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subregulation (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000. (L.N.97 of 1970)
$15,000
22. Testing of timers for use in connection with irradiating apparatus
(1) No person shall use any time switch, exposure timer or treatment timer in connection with any irradiating apparatus used for therapeutic purposes unless such switch or timer is tested from time to time, as may be required by the Board, for accuracy by a person approved by the Board for such purpose and when last so tested was found to be accurate to within 1%.
(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subregulation (1) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000. (L.N. 97 of 1970)
$15,000
23. Supervision of persons undergoing treatment
(1) Any person administering any treatment involving the exposure of any patient to radiation from any irradiating apparatus shall, during exposure to such radiation, himself keep the patient under observation and also the apparatus by means of which the treatment is being administered and shall determine the duration of the treatment either by an automatic treatment timer or by an integrating dosemeter.
(2) Any person who fails to comply with any of the provisions of subregulation (1) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine of $5,000 (L.N.97 of 1970)
$15,000
24. Recording and checking of filters
(1) In any therapeutic application of X-rays, the type of filter used for the useful beam or the half-value layer resulting therefrom shall at each treatment be entered in a treatment record of the patient by the person administering the treatment.