74Continued exemption for certain medical registrars

74 Continued exemption for certain medical registrars

74 Continued exemption for certain medical registrars

(1) A relevant medical registrar continues to be exempt from the requirement to hold a radiation user licence under former clause 10(1)(a) in relation to the use of regulated material in the course of the registrar’s training if the registrar complies with section 14(2).

(2) The exemption continues until the earlier of the following—

(a) the relevant day,

(b) the registrar is granted a radiation user licence.

(3) In this section—

former clause 10(1)(a) means the Protection from Harmful Radiation Regulation 2013, clause 10(1)(a), as in force immediately before its repeal.

relevant day means the day that is 9 months after the day on which this section commences.

relevant medical registrar means—

(a) a person who, immediately before the repeal of the Protection from Harmful Radiation Regulation 2013—

(i) was a medical registrar at a hospital, and

(ii) was training in a health profession that uses fluoroscopy, other than a health profession referred to in section 14(1), and

(iii) was exempt from the requirement to hold a radiation user licence under former clause 10(1)(a), and

(iv) did not hold a radiation user licence, or

(b) a person who—

(i) commences work as a medical registrar at a hospital on or after the commencement of this section, and

(ii) is training in a health profession that uses fluoroscopy, other than a health profession referred to in section 14(1), and

(iii) would have been exempt from the requirement to hold a radiation user licence under former clause 10(1)(a), and

(iv) does not hold a radiation user licence.