{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-labelling-and-carriage-of-radioactive-material-by-rail-regulations-1996/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-labelling-and-carriage-of-radioactive-material-by-rail-regulations-1996/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2090",
  "legislation_title": "The Packaging, Labelling and Carriage of Radioactive Material by Rail Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/packaging-labelling-and-carriage-of-radioactive-material-by-rail-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Approval of package designs for fissile material",
  "text": "(1) No person shall cause or permit to be carried any package containing fissile material, other than a package containing fissile material which falls within paragraph 7 of the Approved Document, without multilateral approval of the package design for that package.\n(2) An application for the approval of a package design for fissile material by the Secretary of State shall include the information specified in Schedule 5.\n(3) The approval by the Secretary of State of a package design for fissile material shall be given by the issue of a package design approval certificate stating that the design meets the requirements for fissile packages specified in paragraph 6 of the Approved Document.\n(4) The approval by a competent authority other than the Secretary of State of a package design for such material shall be evidenced by a package design approval certificate issued by that competent authority stating that the design meets requirements equivalent to those referred to in paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2090/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:37:11.429162+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."
}