Breadcrumb

Radiological Protection Act 1991 (No. 9).

Country(ies)

Ireland

Subjects (Classification)

Occupational safety and health; Protection against particular hazards

Adopted on (Date of text)

1991-05-11

Scope of text

National

Type of legislation (Type of text)

Law, Act

Abstract/Citation

An Act to provide for the establishment of an institution to be called the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, to define its functions, to provide for the dissolution of an Bord Fuinnimh Nuicléigh and the transfer of its function to the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland, to authorise the making of Regulations prescribing levels of activity and specifying matters to be done in the event of specified levels being exceeded and to give effect tot the Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident done at Vienna on the 26th Day of September, 1986, the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency done at Vienna on the 26th Day of September, 1986, the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material done at Vienna on the 26th Day of October, 1979, and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.