{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-act-1993/section-1F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-act-1993/section-1F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/12",
  "legislation_title": "Radioactive Substances Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-act-1993",
  "path": "section/1F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1F",
  "heading": "Radionuclides not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin in background radioactivity",
  "text": "(1) A substance or article is not radioactive material or radioactive waste where—\n(a) it is contaminated as a result of a climatic process, or a combination of such processes, by radionuclides which—\n(i) are not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin; and\n(ii) are not present in the substance or article at a concentration that exceeds that found normally in such a substance or article in the United Kingdom; and\n(b) in the absence of such contamination, the substance or article would not otherwise be radioactive material or radioactive waste under this Act.\n(2) In this section, a “climatic process” includes wind, precipitation and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1A-1H, 1J (with a reference to the \"Scottish Ministers\" in s. 1J) substituted for ss. 1, 2 (S.) (1.10.2011) by The Radioactive Substances Act 1993 Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/207), regs. 1(1), 3; and those same sections (with a reference to the \"Department of Environment\" in s. 1J) substituted (N.I.) (1.10.2011) by The Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 (S.R. 2011/290), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 1-24 repealed (S.) (1.9.2018) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/219), reg. 1, sch. 7 para. 1 (with reg. 78, sch. 5 paras. 3, 4, 6 and transitional provisions and savings (25.11.2021) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1309), arts. 1(1), 3-5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/12/section/1F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:14.428372+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."
}