Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) Subject to
subregulation (2), a person operating or using, or engaged in an activity
operating or using, a particular radioactive substance, irradiating apparatus
or electronic product shall not act in such a manner as knowingly —
(a) to
receive or to cause another person to receive a dose of ionising radiation
exceeding the appropriate effective dose limit, equivalent dose limit or dose
limit specified in item 1(2)(b) of Schedule I, as the case requires; or
(b) to
be exposed to or to cause another person to be exposed to a level of
non‑ionising radiation exceeding the appropriate maximum permissible
exposure level.
(2) A person operating
or using, or engaged in an activity operating or using, a radioactive
substance or irradiating apparatus in the course of a single planned special
exposure conducted with the prior approval of the Council shall not act in
such a manner as knowingly to receive or to cause another person to receive a
dose of ionising radiation exceeding the effective dose limit specified in
item 1(4) of Schedule I.
(3) This regulation
does not apply to a person operating or using, or engaged in an activity
operating or using, a radioactive substance, irradiating apparatus or
electronic product who acts in a manner prohibited by this regulation in
rescuing or safeguarding a person from serious injury or danger to life or in
preventing the exposure of 2 or more persons to a radiation hazard.
(4) This regulation
does not apply to the exposure to radiation of those parts of the human
body —
(a)
necessarily exposed thereto in the course of any diagnosis or treatment by or
prescribed by a medical practitioner, dentist, chiropractor or
physiotherapist; and
(b)
conducted in accordance with the Act and these regulations (other than this
regulation).
(5) Notwithstanding
anything contained in subregulation (4), a licensee or any other person
using a radioactive substance, irradiating apparatus or electronic product for
diagnosis in respect of, or the treatment of, a human patient
shall —
(a) not
unnecessarily expose to radiation those parts of the human body which are not
the subject of; and
(b) if
the reproductive organs of that patient are or may be exposed to a direct
x‑ray beam, apply protective shielding to those organs unless that
application might interfere with,
that diagnosis or
treatment.
[Regulation 24 amended: Gazette
28 Jan 1994 p. 282; 22 Jul 1997 p. 3822 and
3826.]