{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-public-policy-exclusion-order-2008/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-public-policy-exclusion-order-2008/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1820",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Public Policy Exclusion) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-public-policy-exclusion-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“Core Competence” means the ability to provide or manage installations, buildings or services required for a nuclear submarine or a nuclear reactor and the ability to do one or more of the following—\n(a) design and build a nuclear submarine and integrate its equipment and systems;\n(b) design and build a nuclear reactor;\n(c) provide or manage the repair and maintenance of a nuclear submarine and a nuclear reactor; or\n(d) provide or manage the removal of a nuclear reactor, the nuclear reactor fuel and other radioactive material from a nuclear submarine;\n“equipment” means an item or items required for the construction or operation of a nuclear submarine but does not include any weapon;\n“joint buying agreement” means an agreement between two or more Submarine Enterprise Collaboration Participants for the joint purchase of goods or services;\n“nuclear reactor” means a nuclear reactor for a nuclear submarine;\n“nuclear submarine” means a submarine developed or manufactured for the Secretary of State where that submarine is powered by a nuclear steam raising plant;\n“Submarine Enterprise Collaboration Participant” means a person satisfying the criteria in article 3;\n“systems” means assemblies of equipment that are to be integrated into a nuclear submarine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1820/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:27:51.939418+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}