Import (Radiation) (Prohibition) Regulations
[20 November 1959]
(Format changes—E.R. 7 of 2020)
| These regulations were made under the repealed Importation and Exportation Ordinance (Chapter 50, 1966 Ed.) and, by virtue of section 36(1) of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance (Cap. 1), continue to have the like effect as if they had been made under the Import and Export Ordinance (enacted in 1970). |
These regulations may be cited as the Import (Radiation) (Prohibition) Regulations.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
irradiating apparatus (輻照儀器) means any apparatus which—(a)is intended to produce or emit ionizing radiation; or(b)is capable of producing or emitting ionizing radiation at a dose rate exceeding 5 µSv per hour at a distance of 5 cm from any accessible point of the surface of the apparatus; radioactive substance (放射性物質) means any substance which consists of or contains any radioactive chemical element whether natural or artificial and whose specific activity exceeds 75 bequerels of parent radioactive chemical element per gram of substance.No person shall import any article specified in the Schedule except under and in accordance with an import licence granted by the Director.
Paragraph (1) shall not apply in the case of any article in transit. (L.N. 298 of 1991)
Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 1 year. (E.R. 7 of 2020)
| 1. | Any radioactive substance and any article containing any radioactive substance |
| 2. | Any irradiating apparatus |