CAP. 303]
Radiation
(1982 Ed.
Liability of directors, etc., where offence committed by company.
Amendment of Schedule.
Saving for other enactments.
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penalty provided therefor, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence:
Provided that-
(a) no such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment (except in default of payment of a fine) for any offence under this section; and
(b) nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt the employee or agent from the penalties provided for the offence committed by him.
23. Where a person by whom an offence under this Ordinance has been committed is a company, every director and every officer concerned in the management of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.
(Added, 6 of 1961, s. 5)
24. Subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, the Board may by order amend the Schedule.
25. The provisions of this Ordinance and any regulation made thereunder shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any other enactment relating to radioactive substances or irradiating apparatus.
SCHEDULE
RADIOACTIVE MINERALS
[ss. 2 & 24.]
(1) Any mineral containing uranium or thorium or any compound thereof and, in particular and without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph, the substances hereinafter set out in this Schedule. (Amended, L.N. 76/65)
(2) Minerals of the pitchblende group, including pitchblende, uraninite, ulrichite, broggerite, cleveite and related mineral species.
(3) Secondary uranium minerals including torbernite, autunite, uranite, rutherfordine, uranophane, gummite, thorogummite, uranocircite, kasolite, becquerelite, and other silicates, hydrates, carbonates, phosphates or arsenates of uranium.
(4) Carnotite, tyuyamunite, and related uranium-bearing vanadate ores.
(5) Uranium-bearing niobate-titanate-tantalate ores, including euxenite, polycrase, blomstrandine, priorite, samarskite, fergusonite, betafite and related minerals.
(6) Monazite, thorite, and thorianite.
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CAP. 303]
Radiation
(1982 Ed.
Liability of directors, etc., where offence committed by company.
Amendment of Schedule.
Saving for other
enactments.
46/90516
penalty provided therefor, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge and that he had exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence:
Provided that-
(a) no such person shall be sentenced to imprisonment (except in default of payment of a fine) for any offence under this section; and
(b) nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt the employee or agent from the penalties provided for the offence committed by him.
23. Where a person by whom an offence under this Ordinance has been committed is a company, every director and every officer concerned in the management of the company shall be guilty of the like offence unless he proves that the act constituting the offence took place without his knowledge or consent.
( Added, 6 of 1961, s. 5)
24. Subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, the Board may by order amend the Schedule.
25. The provisions of this Ordinance and any-regulation-made thereunder shall be in addition to and not in derogation of the provisions of any other enactment relating to radioactive substances or irradiating apparatus.
SCHEDULE
RADIOACTIVE MINERALS
[ss. 2 & 24.]
(1) Any mineral containing uranium or thorium or any compound thereof and, in particular and without prejudice to the generality of this paragraph, the substances hereinafter set out in this Schedule. (Amended, L.N. 76/65)
(2) Minerals of the pitchblende group, including pitchblende, uraninite, ulrichite,
broggerite, cleveite and related mineral species.
(3) Secondary uranium minerals including torbernite, autunite, uranite, rutherfor- dine, uranophane, gummite, thorogummite, uranocircite, kasolite, becquerelite, and other silicates, hydrates, carbonates, phosphates or arsenates of uranium.
(4) Carnotite, tyuyamunite, and related uranium-bearing vanadate ores. (5) Uranium-bearing niobate-titanate-tantalate ores, including euxenite, polycrase,
blomstrandine, priorite, samarskite, fergusonite, betafite and related minerals. (6) Monazite, thorite, and thorianite.
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