IMPORT (RADIATION) (PROHIBITION) REGULATIONS

IMPORT (RADIATION) (PROHIBITION) REGULATIONS

IMPORT (RADIATION) (PROHIBITION) REGULATIONS*

(Cap. 60, section 31)

[20 November 1959.]

1. These regulations may be cited as the Import (Radiation)

(Prohibition) Regulations.

2. (1) No person shall import any article specified in the

Schedule except under and in accordance with an import licence granted
by the Director.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph

(1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $10,000
and to imprisonment for 1 year.

SCHEDULE

1. Any substance containing the following

Radium (2) Radon (3) Radium D (4) Radium
E (5) Polonium (6) Mesothorium I (Radium-
228) (7) Radiothorium

Actinium (2) Americium (3) Antimony
(4) Argon (5) Arsenic (6) Barium (7)
Berkelium (8) Beryllium (9) Bismuth
(10) Bromine (11) Cadmium (12)
Caesium (13) Calcium (14) Californium
(15) Carbon (16) Cerium (17) Chlorine
(18) Chromium (19) Cobalt

in whatever form

(8)Mesothorium II
(9) Thorium X
(10) Thorium B
(11) Thorium and other
Thorium Compounds
(12) Uranium
(13) Radioactive luminous
paints and powders.

chemical elements-

(20) Copper
(21) Curium
(22) Dysprosium
(23) Erbium
(24) Europium
(25) Flourine
(26) Gadolinium
(27) Gallium
(28) Germanium
(29) Gold
(30) Hafnium
(31) Holmium
(32) Hydrogen (Tritium)
(33) Indium






(34) Iridium
(35) Iron
(36) Iodine
(37) Krypton
(38) Lanthanum

These regulations were formerly cited
hibition) (Radiation) Regulations.

as

the Importation (Pro-





(39) Lead
(40) Lutecium
(41) Manganese
(42) Mercury
(43) Molybdenum
(44) Neodymium
(45) Neptunium
(46) Nickel
(47) Niobium
(48) Osmium
(49) Palladium
(50) Phosphorus
(51) Platinum
(52) Plutonium
(53) Potassium
(54) Praseodymium
(55) Promethium
(56) Protoactinium
(57) Rhenium
(58) Rhodium
(59) Rubidium
(60) Ruthenium

(61) Samarium
(62) Scandium
(63) Selenium
(64) Silicon

(65) Silver
(66) Sodium

(67) Strontium
(68) Sulphur

(69) Tantalum

(70) Technetium
(71) Tellurium

(72) Terbium
(73) Thallium
(74) Thulium
(75) Tin

(76) Tungsten

(77) Vanadium
(78) Xenon

(79) Ytterbium
(80) Yttrium

(81) Zinc
(82) Zirconium

2. Any apparatus capable of producing ionising radiations (with the exception
of ultra-violet radiation) of any prescribed type, or capable of accelerating atomic
or subatomic particles under any prescribed conditions, such as the following

(A)X-ray machines or tubes of any type or description used for whatever
purpose.

(B)Linear Accelerators, Betatrons, Synchrotrons, Cyclotrons, Synch-
Bevatrons, Van der Graaf Generators and like apparatuses capable of
accelerating atomic or subatomic particles.






G.N.A. 73/59. L.N. 253/80. Citation. Prohibition of import of articles in Schedule except under licence. L.N. 253/80.

G.N.A. 73/59. L.N. 253/80. Citation. Prohibition of import of articles in Schedule except under licence. L.N. 253/80.

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