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RADIATION PROTECTION
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substance or irradiating apparatus to submit to medical examinations, including blood tests;
(j) prohibiting the use of any prescribed radioactive substance or any prescribed class or description of irradiating apparatus either# generally, or for prescribed purposes or otherwise than for prescribed purposes;
(k) prescribing the maximum working hours and minimum age of persons engaged in the manufacture, production, treatment, storage, sale or use of any radioactive substance or the use, testing or repair of any irradiating apparatus, prescribing the minimum holidays to be taken by those persons, and providing for the medical examination of those persons;
(l) prescribing personnel or area monitoring;
(m) regulating the use of any radioactive substance for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes;
(n) regulating the dispensing and compounding of any prescription containing any radioactive substance;
(o) providing for the making of returns by owners of radioactive materials of the quantities and classes of radioactive materials held by them;
(p) providing for the keeping by purchasers of radioactive substances of records specifying the purposes to which those substances are put, and for the inspection of those records, and for the making of returns of entries in those records;
(q) providing for the keeping of records of all application of radioactive substances or irradiating apparatus for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes;
(r) regulating the registration of mobile radioactive and irradiating laboratories;
(s) prescribing the fees payable for services rendered by the Director-General;
(t) prescribing offences in respect of the contravention of any regulation made under this section, and prescribing penalties, not exceeding $50,000, that may, on conviction, be imposed in respect of any such offence; and