The responsibilities and duties of the medical physicist are described in a number of South African laws and regulations. The Law on Hazardous Substances (Law 15 of 1973) and the regulations referring to this law, describe specific accountabilities and involvement of the medical physicist in the application and regulation of hazardous substances e.g. ionising radiation and LASER-beams in the hospital. "Regulations defining the scope of the profession of medical physicist", were published as Regulation No R310 of 26 February 1988 in terms of section 33(1) of the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act, 1974 (Act 56 of 1974).

The above-mentioned Regulation No 310 lists a number of acts which shall for the purposes of the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act be deemed to be acts pertaining to the profession of medical physicist. The regulations however do not give a description of the duties involved in the acts mentioned nor of the frequency of the specific duties to be performed. The occupational code for the scope of the profession of Medical Physics, drafted by the executive committee of SAMPS, describes the responsibilities and duties of the medical physicist and indicates the frequency with which specific duties should be performed.

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