{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-radioactive-sources-control-order-2006/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-radioactive-sources-control-order-2006/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1846",
  "legislation_title": "The Export of Radioactive Sources (Control) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-of-radioactive-sources-control-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Export Control Act 2002;\n“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;\n“controlled radioactive source” means a radionuclide of a description in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order with an activity level of that in the corresponding entry in column 2;\n“customs and excise Acts” and “prescribed sum” have the same meanings as in section 1 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ;\n“exportation” means (except where the context otherwise requires) exportation from the United Kingdom to any destination outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man; “exporter” and other cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;\n“general” in relation to a licence, means not granted to a particular person but available for use generally;\n“in transit” means imported into the United Kingdom for transit or transhipment; “transit or transhipment” means transit through the United Kingdom or transhipment with a view to re-exportation of the controlled radioactive sources in question.\n“licence user” means a person who is registered under article 6 to use a general licence or who is entitled to use a general licence without registration owing to the terms of that general licence;",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (6.4.2009) by The Export of Radioactive Sources (Control) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/585), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (6.4.2009) by The Export of Radioactive Sources (Control) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/585), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1979 c. 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1846/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:26:03.569501+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."
}