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Part II

18. Requirement to obtain a licence to conduct a practice

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

No person including the Board, shall conduct a practice involving ionizing radiation (in this Act referred to as a “practice”) :-

(a)

except under the authority of a licence issued by the Council for the purpose; or

(b)

unless it is a practice which has been exempted from the regulatory control of the Council, in terms of the provisions of this Act.

(2)

A person who conducts a practice or uses any source for the conduct of a practice without obtaining a licence for that purpose shall commit an offence and be liable on conviction after summary trial before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding three million rupees or to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Read on from s 19

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