Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Act 2014 · As enacted · Part III
86. Regulations
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
The Minister may make regulations in respect of all matters which are prescribed under this Act and in respect of which regulations are authorized to be made.
In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters :-
the regulation of the exportation, importation, re-exportation, storage, mining, processing, designing, manufacturing, construction, assembling, acquiring, distribution, selling, leasing, hiring, receiving, siting, locating, commissioning, possessing, decommissioning, disassembling, using or disposing radioactive material or radioactive sources and of designing, manufacturing, selling. locating, possessing, using, exporting or importing of irradiating apparatus;
the decommissioning of irradiation installations;
the protection of radiation workers against harmful effects of ionizing radiation, including medical surveillance and occupational exposure of ionizing radiation;
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the protection of general public and the environ-ment against harmful effects of ionizing radiation;
the regulation of medical practices involving ion-izing radiation, including protection of patients;
the regulation of radioactive waste management, including release of waste into the environment and any practice which may affect public health and safety;
the security of radioactive sources and controlled items; and
the formulation of a compensation scheme for the payment of compensation to radiation workers for any injury, illness or damage caused due to exposure to ionizing radiation.
Every regulation made by the Minister, shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in such regulation.
Every regulation made by the Minister shall as soon as convenient after its publication in the Gazette, be brought before Parliament for its approval. Any regulation which is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.
A notification of the date on which any regulation shall be deemed to be rescinded, shall be published in the
Gazette.