Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Radioactive Substances Act, 1960 : 8 & 9 Eliz. 2. Ch. 34. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Radioactive Substances Act, 1960 : 8 & 9 Eliz. 2. Ch. 34. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![An Act to regulate the keeping and use of radioactive material, and to make provision as to the disposal and accumulation of radioactive waste; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. [2nd June, 1960] with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— BR’ it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and 1.—(1) As from the appointed day no person shall, on any General premises which are used for the purposes of an undertaking provisions for carried on by him, keep or use, or cause or permit to be kept or Pica aaa of used, radioactive material of any description, knowing or having aa ieee reasonable grounds for believing it to be radioactive material, material, unless either— (a) he is registered under this section in respect of those premises and in respect of the keeping and use thereon of radioactive material of that description, or (b) he is exempted from registration under this section in respect of those premises and in respect of the keeping and use thereon of radioactive material of that descrip- tion, or (c) the radioactive material in question consists of mobile radioactive apparatus in respect of which a person is registered under section three of this Act or is exempted from registration under that section.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3218105x_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
