The Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2019/703 |
| Year | 2019 |
(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations 2019 and come into force on the 22nd May 2019.(2) These Regulations do not extend to Northern Ireland.(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
- “the 2017 Regulations” means the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 ;
- “the Agency” in relation to premises or a plan relating to premises—
- (a) in England, means the Environment Agency,
- (b) in Wales, means Natural Resources Body for Wales, and
- (c) in Scotland, means the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;
- “approved dosimetry service” means an approved dosimetry service within the meaning of the 2017 Regulations and which is approved for the purpose of regulation 22 of those Regulations;
- “authorised defence site” has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998 ;
- “Category 1 responder” has the meaning set out in Parts 1, 2 and 2A of Schedule 1 to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 ;
- “Category 2 responder” has the meaning set out in Parts 3, 4 and 5 of Schedule 1 to the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 ;
- “consequences report” has the meaning set out in regulation 7(1) ;
- “detailed emergency planning zone” means a zone determined in accordance with regulation 8 and covered by the local authority's off-site emergency plan;
- “dose” means, in relation to ionising radiation, any dose or sum of dose quantities to which an individual is exposed as a result of a radiation emergency;
- “dose assessment” means the dose assessment made and recorded by an approved dosimetry service in accordance with regulation 22 of the 2017 Regulations;
- “dose record” means the record made and maintained in respect of an employee by the approved dosimetry service in accordance with regulation 22 of the 2017 Regulations;
- “emergency exposure” means an exposure of an employee engaged in an activity of or associated with the response to a radiation emergency or potential radiation emergency in order to bring help to endangered persons, prevent exposure of other persons or save a valuable installation or goods, whereby one of the individual dose limits referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 3 to the 2017 Regulations could be exceeded;
- “emergency services” means—
- (a) those police, fire and ambulance services who are likely to be required to respond to a radiation emergency which has occurred at the premises of an operator, and
- (b) where appropriate, Her Majesty's Coastguard;
- “emergency worker” means any person who has a defined responding role in an operator's emergency plan or a local authority's off-site emergency plan, and who might be exposed to radiation as a result of a potential or actual radiation emergency;
- “existing exposure situation” means an exposure situation which does not call or no longer calls for the implementation of any protective action from an emergency plan;
- “health authority” means—
- (a) in relation to England, F42an integrated care board established under Chapter A3 of Part 2 of the National Health Service Act 2006,
- (b) in relation to Wales, means a local health board established under section 11 of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006 , and
- (c) in relation to Scotland, a health board established under section 2 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 ;
- “installation” means a unit in which the radioactive substances present are, or are intended to be, produced, used, handled or stored, and it includes—
- (a) equipment, structures, pipework, machinery and tools, and
- (b) docks, unloading quays, jetties, warehouses or similar structures, whether floating or not;
- “ionising radiation” means the energy transferred in the form of particles or electromagnetic waves of a wavelength of 100 nanometres or less or a frequency of 3 x 1015 hertz or more capable of producing ions directly or indirectly;
- “licensed site” means a site in respect of which a nuclear site licence has been granted and is in force;
- “local authority” means in relation to—
- (a) London, the London Fire Commissioner,
- (b) an area where there is a Metropolitan County Fire and Rescue Authority, that authority,
- (c) the Isles of Scilly, the Council of the Isles of Scilly,
- (d) an area in the rest of England, the county council for that area, or, where there is no county council for that area, the district council for that area,
- (e) an area in Scotland, the council for the local government area, and
- (f) an area in Wales, the county council or the county borough council for that area;
- “medical surveillance” means medical surveillance carried out in accordance with the 2017 Regulations;
- “new nuclear build site” has the meaning given by regulation 2A of the Health and Safety (Enforcing Authority) Regulations 1998 ;
- “non-dispersible source” means a sealed source or a radioactive substance which, in either case, it is determined that, by virtue of its physical and chemical form, it cannot cause a radiation emergency but does not include any radioactive substance that is or has been a component of a nuclear reactor;
- “nuclear site licence” has the meaning assigned to it by section 1(1) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 ;
- “nuclear warship site” has the meaning given by regulation 2B of the Health and...
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