Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Ra­di­olo­gic­al screen­ing is a ra­di­olo­gic­al ex­am­in­a­tion per­formed in a spe­cif­ic group of people for the pur­pose of early de­tec­tion of a dis­ease, even though it is not clin­ic­ally sus­pec­ted in the in­di­vidu­als con­cerned. This does not in­clude routine oc­cu­pa­tion­al health ex­am­in­a­tions.

² Ra­di­olo­gic­al screen­ing may only be car­ried out as part of a pro­gramme. It must be in­sti­tuted by a health au­thor­ity.

³ Ra­di­olo­gic­al screen­ing must sat­is­fy the qual­ity re­quire­ments spe­cified for the pro­gramme by the com­pet­ent health au­thor­ity.