Hong Kong Regulations

RADIATION (CONTROL OF RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 24

Provision of storage safes in certain cases

(1) If so required by the Authority the proprietor of any affected 
undertaking or affected industrial undertaking shall provide and maintain for
the storage of radioactive substances, including sealed sources, one or more
storage safes of a kind approved by the Authority, and shall ensure that all
radioactive substances which are not in use are stored therein and that only
the minimum quantities required for immediate use are removed therefrom at any
one time.

(2) Every safe referred to in subregulation (1) which contains any radioactive
substance which emits any radioactive substance in gaseous form shall be
provided with adequate ventilation to the open air.

(3) The proprietor shall ensure that no radioactive substance, including, any
sealed source, is removed from the safe referred to in subregulation (1)
unless it is contained in a suitable protective container and is removed by a
person having reasonable experience or training in the use of radioactive
substances.

(4) Any proprietor of any affected undertaking or affected 
industrial undertaking who fails to comply with any of the provisions of this
regulation shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of
$15000. (L.N. 98 of 1970; L.N. 226 of 1990)