Regulation 3

For the purposes of paragraph(d) of the definition of “excepted matter” in section 26(1) of the Act it is hereby prescribed that the following shall be excepted matter—

(1)

any substance consisting substantially of uranium in which—

(a)

the total activity content per gramme of that substance of all radioisotopes other than any uranium isotopes which are normally present in natural uranium or any daughter products of such uranium isotopes—

(i)

does not exceed 200,000 alpha disintegrations per minute for all alpha emitting isotopes; and

(ii)

does not exceed 20 microcuries from all beta or gamma emitting isotopes; and

(b)

the mass of the isotope uranium 235 does not exceed 1 per cent of the total mass of all the uranium isotopes present; and

(2)

for such time as it is outside a relevant site, nuclear matter (other than waste discharged on or from a relevant site or consigned therefrom) which has been consigned from a relevant site and which at the time when it left that site—

(a)

was duly packed and labelled in accordance with the appropriate provisions of the IAEA Regulations, and

(b)

did not exceed the limits of activity prescribed in Regulation 4 hereof, and

(c)

being fissile material, did not exceed the limits prescribed in Regulation 5 hereof, and was either

(i)

exempted by paragraph 601 of the IAEA Regulations, or by section C5.1.2 of the 1967 Edition of those Regulations, from the additional provisions of those Regulations relating to packages containing fissile materials, or

(ii)

packed in such a way as to satisfy the nuclear safety criteria laid down for Fissile Class I or Fissile Class II packages in either the IAEA Regulations or the 1967 Edition of those Regulations.