{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfrontier-shipment-of-radioactive-waste-and-spent-fuel-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfrontier-shipment-of-radioactive-waste-and-spent-fuel-eu-exit-regulations-2019/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/156",
  "legislation_title": "The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transfrontier-shipment-of-radioactive-waste-and-spent-fuel-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“Chief Inspector” means the Chief Inspector for Northern Ireland appointed under section 4(7) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1993 ;\n“competent authority” (except when referring to the competent authority of another country) means—\n(a)in England, the Environment Agency;\n(b)in Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;\n(c)in Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;\n(d)in Northern Ireland, the Chief Inspector;\n“holder” means any person who, before carrying out a shipment of radioactive waste or spent fuel, is responsible under the applicable national law for such materials and plans to carry out a shipment to a consignee;\n“radioactive waste” means radioactive material in gaseous, liquid or solid form for which no further use is foreseen by the countries of origin and destination, or by a person whose decision is accepted by those countries, and which is controlled as radioactive waste by a regulatory body under the legislative and regulatory framework of each of those countries;\n“reprocessing” means a process or operation, the purpose of which is to extract radioactive isotopes from spent fuel for further use;\n“shipment” means the whole of operations involved in moving radioactive waste or spent fuel from a country of origin to a country of destination and “ship” must be construed in accordance with this definition;\n“spent fuel” means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core; spent fuel may either be considered as a usable resource that can be reprocessed or be destined for final disposal with no further use foreseen and treated as radioactive waste; and\n“third country” means a country , other than the United Kingdom, that is not a Member State of the European Union.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste and Spent Fuel (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1115), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/156/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:14.257534+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."
}