S.I. No. 131/2000 - European Communities (Revocation of Regulations Relating To Ionising Radiation and Protection of Outside Workers From Such Radiation) Regulations, 2000.

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Revocation of Regulations relating to Ionising Radiation and Protection of Outside Workers from such Radiation) Regulations, 2000.

(2) These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 13th May 2000.

2. The European Communities (Ionising Radiation) Regulations, 1991 (

S.I. No. 43 of 1991

), and the European Communities (Protection of Outside Workers from Ionising Radiation) Regulations, 1994 (

S.I. No. 144 of 1994

), are revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 16th day of May, 2000.

MARY O'ROURKE,

Minister for Public Enterprise.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations revoke the European Communities (Ionising Radiation) Regulations, 1991 (

S.I. No. 43 of 1991

) and the European Communities (Protection of Outside Workers from Ionising Radiation) Regulations, 1994 (

S.I. No. 144 of 1994

).

Provisions similar to the Regulations which have been revoked have been included in the

Radiological Protection Act, 1991

(Ionising Radiation) Order, 2000 (

S.I. No. 125 of 2000

) which came into operation on 13th May 2000.

I, MARY O'ROURKE, Minister for Public Enterprise, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

Section 3

of the

European Communities Act, 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), hereby make the following Regulations