Conditions
for first employment.
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(3) Whenever a film is returned for examination to the Authority or to an approved laboratory, as the case may be, the Authority, or the person in charge of the laboratory, shall cause the film to be examined and, so soon as may be thereafter, shall issue to the proprietor who submitted the film for examination a certificate stating the dose of radia- tion received by such film.
(4) Every proprietor to whom a certificate in accordance with para. graph (3) is issued shall forthwith cause the dose of radiation stated thereon to be entered in the register of employees required to be kept in accordance with the provisions of regulation 9 against the name of the person by whom such film was wom:
Provided that where a radiation dosemeter is worn instead of a film, the employer shall cause the weekly dose of radiation recorded by the dosemeter to be entered in the register against the name of the employee by whom the dosemeter was worn.
(5) (2) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected in- dustrial undertaking who fails to comply with any of the pro- visions of this regulation shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a line of five thousand dollars,
(b) any person who fails to wear a photographic film or radiation dosemeter when so directed by the proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking in which he is employed shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars.
11. (1) No proprictor of any affected undertaking or affected in dustrial undertaking shall employ therein any person in any work or process involving the regular handling or transport of any unsealed radioactive substance who-
(a) is under the age of eighteen years; or
(b) has not, within the period of four months immediately pre- ceding his first employment by such proprietor in such work or process, undergone a medical examination by the panel, in- cluding blood examination and the taking of relevant medical and occupational histories, and has been certified fit for such employment.
(2) Any person may apply in writing to the Board for medical examination by the panel for the purpose of complying with the require- ments of sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph (1) and, upon receipt of the application, the Board shall direct the panel to carry out, free of charge, such examination as soon as may be, but in any event not exceeding fourteen days, after receipt of the application and shall within ten days after the examination supply to the applicant two copies of a certificate certifying the date upon which the examination took place and whether
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the applicant was found to be fit or unfit, as the case may be, for employment in radiation work.
(3) For the purpose of this regulation the expression "first employ- ment includes re-employment in any work or process involving the bandling of any radioactive substance following a cessation of such employment for any period exceeding fourteen months.
(4) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected indus- trial undertaking who contravenes any of the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars,
12. (1) No proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected in- Conditions dustrial undertaking shall continue to employ any person for any period for continued employment. exceeding fourteen months in any work involving the regular handling or transport of any unsealed radioactive substance unless such person undergoes medical examination by the panel, including blood examina- tion, at intervals of not more than fourteen months during the con- finuance of such employment and is after each examination certified by the Board to be fit for such employment.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in paragraph (1), the Authority may require, by notice in writing served upon the proprietor of such undertaking, that any person employed by him in any work or process involving the regular handling or transport of any unsealed radioactive substance shall undergo medical examination by the panel, including blood examination, at such time or at such lesser intervals than those specified in paragraph (1) as the Authority, having regard to the circumstances of the case, may consider expedient to safeguard the health of such person; and if such person fails to submit to examina. tion or, after examination, is certified by the Board to be unfit for such employment, such proprietor shall, forthwith upon receipt of notice in writing to that effect, from the Authority, cease to employ such person on such work or process.
(3) Whenever a notice in writing is served upon any proprietor of an affected undertaking or affected industrial undertaking in pursuance of the powers conferred by paragraph (2) a copy thereof shall also be served upon the person to which the notice relates.
(4) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected indus- trial undertaking who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.
13. Any change in any part of the body of any person who has Presumptions been engaged in any work or process involving the handling or transport
as to ck-
posure to
of any radioactive substance which, in the opinion of the panel, is con- radiation. sistent with the effects of over-exposure to radiation shall be deemed to indicate over-exposure thereto.