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  "legislation": "sdsi/2018/9780111039014",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/10",
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  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Radionuclides not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin in background radioactivity",
  "text": "(1) A substance or article is not radioactive material or radioactive waste where—\n(a) it is contaminated as a result of a climatic process, or a combination of such processes, by radionuclides which—\n(i) are not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin; and\n(ii) are not present in the substance or article at a concentration that exceeds that found normally in such a substance or article in the United Kingdom; and\n(b) in the absence of such contamination, the substance or article would not otherwise be radioactive material or radioactive waste.\n(2) In this paragraph, a “climatic process” includes wind, precipitation and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2018/9780111039014/schedule/8/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:33:18.087935+00:00"
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  "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."
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