New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

9 Equipment and supervision

• (1) The owner of any radioactive material or any irradiating apparatus shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that there is at all times a suitably licensed person responsible for the safe care of the radioactive material or the irradiating apparatus, and shall provide adequate equipment and materials to enable the storage, use, transportation, and disposal of the radioactive material or the irradiating apparatus to be carried out safely.

  (2) Every licensee shall be responsible for the safe care of any radioactive material or any irradiating apparatus under his control, and shall retain that responsibility until it has been assumed by another suitably licensed person in accordance with subclause (1) of this regulation, or until it has been dealt with in accordance with subclause (4) of this regulation, as the case may require.

  (3) Any person who employs more than one licensee shall either—

  • (a) Define clearly their areas of respective responsibility; or

  • (b) If this is not practicable, then appoint one of them to supervise compliance with the requirements of the Act or with these regulations by the other or others.

  (4) If there is for the time being, or soon will be, no suitably licensed person available for the purposes of subclause (1) of this regulation, the owner of the radioactive material or the irradiating apparatus shall—

  • (a) Store it to the satisfaction of the Director-General; or

  • (b) In the case of an irradiating apparatus, render it permanently inoperative; or

  • (c) In the case of radioactive material, dispose of it in accordance with these regulations—

  and he shall either store or deliver to the Director-General any records appertaining to that radioactive material or that irradiating apparatus, and notify the Director-General of any action taken under this subclause.