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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-material-road-transport-great-britain-regulations-1996/schedule-12/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-material-road-transport-great-britain-regulations-1996/schedule-12/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) (Great Britain) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-material-road-transport-great-britain-regulations-1996",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A package shall be so designed that, if it were subjected to:\n(a) the tests specified in paragraphs 6–11 of Part III of Schedule 15, it would restrict the loss of radioactive contents to not more than 10−66 A2 per hour; and\n(b) the tests specified in paragraphs 13, 14(b), 15 and 16 of that Part of that Schedule and the test in paragraph—\n(i) 14(c) of that Part of that Schedule, when the package has a mass not greater than 500 kg, an overall density not greater than 1000 kg/m3 based on the external dimensions, and radioactive contents greater than 1000 A2 not as special form radioactive material, or\n(ii) 14(a) of that Part of that Schedule for all other packages,\nit would restrict the accumulated loss of radioactive contents in a period of one week to not more than 10 A2 for krypton-85 and not more than A2 for all other radionuclides.\nWhere mixtures of different radionuclides are present, the provisions of paragraphs 4 to 6 of Schedule 1 shall apply except that for krypton-85 an effective A2 value equal to 100 TBq may be used.\nFor the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) above, the evaluation shall take into account the requirements of Regulation 21.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1350/schedule/12/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:20.628336+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."
}