{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-excepted-matter-regulations-1978/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1779",
  "legislation_title": "The Nuclear Installations (Excepted Matter) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-excepted-matter-regulations-1978",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions in these Regulations shall have the same meanings as in the Act.\n(3) In these Regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say—\n“A2 values” means the values in curies specified for single radionuclides in paragraphs 403 to 405 of the IAEA Regulations and for mixtures of radionuclides in paragraphs 406 to 411 of those Regulations;\n“fissile material” means plutonium 239, plutonium 241, uranium 233, uranium 235, or any material containing any of the aforesaid;\n“group” in relation to radionuclides means any of the five groups into which radionuclides are classified in the Table set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations;\n“the IAEA Regulations” means the Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Materials published by the International Atomic Energy Agency and means the 1973 Revised Edition of those Regulations, dated 1973, except where the 1967 Edition of those Regulations is specified;\n“special form radioactive material” means radioactive material which is either in indispersible solid form or is encapsulated and in either case complies with the requirements of the IAEA Regulations relating to such material.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1779/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:25:35.931129+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."
}