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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018/schedule-8/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2018/219",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-authorisations-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) “Radioactive substances activity” does not include—\n(a) any activity involving radioactive material carried on by a licensee on a nuclear site;\n(b) the transport of radioactive material or radioactive waste, including its receipt for transport and its storage during transport;\n(c) the disposal of radioactive waste in the form of human excreta where—\n(i) the radioactive waste arises as a consequence of the medical administration of radioactive material for the purpose of diagnosis, treatment or trials; and\n(ii) the disposal occurs at a place other than the place of administration of the radioactive material;\n(d) the disposal of radioactive waste at a landfill or at a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant where—\n(i) the radioactive waste may be disposed of in solid waste that is not radioactive waste in accordance with the general binding rules in Chapter 1 of schedule 9, and\n(ii) the radioactive waste has not been segregated from waste that is not radioactive waste,\n(e) the disposal of radioactive waste described in paragraph 6(1)(a) or (b) in a landfill or at a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant where the activity of the radioactive waste does not exceed the concentrations specified in schedule 9, Part 3, Table 1, Column 2.\n(2) A radioactive substances activity is not being carried on by the owner or occupier of premises where radioactive material is present in or on a vehicle, vessel or aircraft and either—\n(a) the vehicle, vessel or aircraft is on those premises in the course of a journey;\n(b) the vehicle, vessel or aircraft is in its operational life; or\n(c) in the case of a vessel which is on those premises otherwise than in the course of a journey the material is used in propelling the vessel or is kept in or on the vessel for use in propelling it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 2(1)(d) substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), regs. 1(2), 39(b)(i) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 2(1)(e) substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), regs. 1(2), 39(b)(ii) (with sch. 23)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:11:56.403037+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."
}