(14 of 1953).
Application
for licence.
"open air" means a space which-
(a) is vertically uncovered and unobstructed;
(b) is not less, in any horizontal dimension, than five feet; and (c) where such space is enclosed on four sides, has a horizontal area of not less than one square foot for every two feet of the mean height of the walls enclosing the space; "panel" means such committee as the Board may from time to time appoint under section 5 of the Ordinance, for the purpose of advis- ing the Board upon matters affecting or concerning the state of health of persons employed or to be employed in any work or process involving manufacture or handling of any radioactive sub- stance; "proprietor", in relation to any affected undertaking or affected indus- trial undertaking, includes any person for the time being having the management or control or receiving the profits of the business carried on in such undertaking or employing any person engaged in such business;
"radioactive waste" means waste radioactive substances and waste material contaminated by radioactive substances or which, having regard to its use, may have become so contaminated; "sealed source" means a radioactive substance which is permanently enclosed in a container in such a manner that it or any part of it cannot be separated from the container unless the container is damaged, but also in such a manner as to permit of the emission of radiation;
"unsealed radioactive substance" means any radioactive substance which
is not a sealed source;
"vessel" means any launch or ferry vessel within the meaning of section 93 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1953, and any vessel to which the provisions of Part XIV of that Ordinance apply.
(2) For the purposes of these regulations where distance is ex- pressed in metres the following formula shall be deemed to provide an equivalent in feet-
3.
metres X
JO
3
distance in feet.
PART II.
LICENSING, CONVEYANCE AND STORAGE.
Every application pursuant to any of the provisions of sec- tion 7 or 9 of the Ordinance for any licence relating to any radioactive substance shall be made in writing addressed to the Authority and shall contain, so far as may be applicable, the following particulars-
(a) the purpose for which the licence is required;
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(6) the nature and quantity of the radioactive substance in
question:
(c) the type of packing in which the substance is contained: (d) the type and dose rate of radiation at the surface of any
package:
(e) in the case of a licence to manufacture, use or store any radio- active substance, the place in which it is to be manufactured, used or stored, and, in the case of a licence to possess for the purpose of transport, the intended means of transport and the place from which it is to be taken and the destination:
(f) in the case of any application pursuant to the provisions of section 9 of the Ordinance, the area in which prospecting or mining is to be undertaken; and
(g) such other particulars as the Authority may require.
4. (1) No person shall store or convey, or cause or permit to be Labelling. stored or conveyed, any container containing any radioactive substance unless such container bears-
(a) in the case of any container in respect of which the dose rate of the radiation at any point on the external surface of the container does not exceed-
(1) ten milliroentgens per twenty-four hours in the case of gamma or X radiation;
(i) the equivalent of ten milliroentgens per twenty-four hours in the case of beta-radiation; or
(iii) those values of flux given in Table I to this regulation in the case of neutrons,
a label in the form of Label A prescribed in the Schedule (in Schedule. this Part referred to as a White Label)
(b) in the case of any container in respect of which the dose rate of the radiation at any point on its external surface exceeds the limits specified in paragraph (a) but does not exceed at any such point---
(i) two hundred milliroentgens per hour in the case of gamma or X radiation;
(i) the equivalent of two hundred milliroentgens per hour in the case of beta-radiation; or
(iii) those values of flux given in Table II to this regulation in the case of neutrons,
or if measured at a distance of one metre from any point on the external surface-
(iv) ten milliroentgens per hour in the case of gamma or X radiation:
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