# The Nuclear Security (Secretary of State Security Directions) Regulations 2018, Paragraph 14: Interpretation


In this Schedule—
“document” includes information recorded in any form;
“person in authority”, in relation to any article or substance, means a senior officer, senior employee or senior contractor at the premises on which the enforcement officer finds the article or substance;
“premises” includes any place and, in particular, includes any vehicle, ship or hovercraft;
“relevant premises”, in relation to an enforcement officer, means premises which that officer has entered—
(a)with the consent of a person who reasonably appeared to the enforcement officer to be an appropriate person to give consent; or
(b)in exercise of the power in paragraph 1;
“substance” means any natural or artificial substance, whether solid or liquid or in the form of a gas or vapour.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/408/schedule/paragraph/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-security-secretary-of-state-security-directions-regulations-2018/schedule/paragraph-14
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