Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which they are made.

In these Regulations–

• “the Act” means the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001;

• “enrichment equipment” means equipment which is—

  1. (a)

     specifically designed or adapted for use in connection with the enrichment of uranium, or

  2. (b)

     not so designed or adapted but likely to be of exceptional use in that connection;

• “equipment” includes—

  1. (a)

     a component of equipment, and

  2. (b)

     buildings;

• “information” does not include software;

• “reckless” has the meaning given by regulation 2(2);

• “specified activity” means any of the following activities:

  1. (a)

     treating uranium to increase the proportion of the isotope 235 contained in the uranium;

  2. (b)

     manufacturing enrichment equipment;

  3. (c)

     adapting equipment which, following its adaptation, remains or becomes enrichment equipment;

  4. (d)

     testing or evaluing the proper working of enrichment equipment.