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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-transfrontier-shipment-of-radioactive-waste-and-spent-fuel-eu-exit-regulations-2018/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111175354",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-transfrontier-shipment-of-radioactive-waste-and-spent-fuel-eu-exit-regulations-2018",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Chief Inspector” means the Chief Inspector for Northern Ireland appointed under section 4(7) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993;\n“competent authority” (except when referring to the competent authority of another country) means—\n(a) in England, the Environment Agency;\n(b) in Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;\n(c) in Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;\n(d) in Northern Ireland, the Chief Inspector;\n“holder” means any person who, before carrying out a shipment of radioactive waste or spent fuel, is responsible under the applicable national law for such materials and plans to carry out a shipment to a consignee;\n“radioactive waste” means radioactive material in gaseous, liquid or solid form for which no further use is foreseen by the countries of origin and destination, or by a person whose decision is accepted by those countries, and which is controlled as radioactive waste by a regulatory body under the legislative and regulatory framework of each of those countries;\n“reprocessing” means a process or operation, the purpose of which is to extract radioactive isotopes from spent fuel for further use;\n“shipment” means the whole of operations involved in moving radioactive waste or spent fuel from a country of origin to a country of destination and “ship” must be construed in accordance with this definition;\n“spent fuel” means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core; spent fuel may either be considered as a usable resource that can be reprocessed or be destined for final disposal with no further use foreseen and treated as radioactive waste; and\n“third country” means a country that is not a Member State of the European Union.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1993 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111175354/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:03:08.806898+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."
}