{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-uranium-and-thorium-exemption-order-1962/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-uranium-and-thorium-exemption-order-1962/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1962/2710",
  "legislation_title": "The Radioactive Substances (Uranium and Thorium) Exemption Order 1962",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-uranium-and-thorium-exemption-order-1962",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Descriptions of radioactive material to which exemption relates",
  "text": "The last preceding Article applies to radioactive material falling within any of the following descriptions, that is to say,—\n(a) a solid or liquid substance which—\n(i) contains natural uranium, and is radioactive material solely because of the presence of one or more of the Schedule 3 elements in the natural uranium; or\n(ii) contains natural thorium, and is radioactive material solely because of the presence of one or more of the Schedule 3 elements in the natural thorium; or\n(iii) contains both natural uranium and natural thorium, and is radioactive material solely because of the presence of one or more of the Schedule 3 elements in the natural uranium and the natural thorium or either of them;\n(b) an article made wholly from such a substance;\n(c) an article which is made partly from, or incorporates, such a substance and which is radioactive material solely because of the presence of that substance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1962/2710/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T00:22:06.091323+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."
}