Radioactive substances act

Subject to the Radioactive Substances Act 1984 and enforced by the Department of Transport. They impose requirements concerning the packaging, labelling and carriage of radioactive materials and the accompanying documentation. 

Part V contains amendments to the Radioactive Substances Act 1960, Part VI controls the use, import, containment or release of genetically modified organisms to the environment, and Part VII provided for the reorganization of the Nature Conservancy Council and Countryside Commission. 

United Kingdom - Parliament, 1993. Radioactive Substances Act, 1993. HMSO, London. 

In the UK, institutions must be registered for work with specific radioisotopes under the Radioactive Substances Act (1960). 

Department of the Environment, Radioactive Substances Act I960, A guide to the administration of the Act, HMSO, London (1982)... 

The need to exclude low levels of natural radionuclides from unnecessary legislation was recognised at an early stage in the UK. The Radioactive Substances Act (RSA, 1993) defined eight radioelements, all within the natural uranium and thorium decay chains, that constituted radioactive material only if present above a certain threshold. Problems arose with anthropogenic radionuclides, not considered above, and owing to various, established practices that required a large number of bespoke and somewhat ad hoc exemption orders the most important of which in the current context was the Phosphatic Substances and Rare Earths etc. Exemption Order (PSRE). The need for elemental activity concentrations meant that, polonium for example was calculated from ... 

This type of work is subject to the Ionizing Radiations Regulations 1999 (IRR), which impose comprehensive duties on employers to protect people at work against exposure to ionizing radiation. These regulations are enforced by the HSE, while the Radioactive Substances Act (RSA) is enforced by the Environmental Agency. 

The main Acts of parliament involved in radiological safety are the Nuclear Installations Act, the Factories Act, and the Radioactive Substances Act. The Nuclear Installations Act of 1965 provides inter alia for the regulation of certain installations capable of emitting ionizing radiations. It lays down conditions under which a nuclear site licence may be granted by the Minister of Power. Under the Radioactive Substances Act a standing advisory committee has been set up and has published... 

The Radioactive Substances Act of 1960 provides for the registration from 1 December, 1963, of users of radioactive material, of mobile radioactive apparatus and for the disposal and accumulation of radioactive waste. 

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