{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uranium-enrichment-technology-prohibition-on-disclosure-regulations-2004/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uranium-enrichment-technology-prohibition-on-disclosure-regulations-2004/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1818",
  "legislation_title": "The Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uranium-enrichment-technology-prohibition-on-disclosure-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Uranium Enrichment Technology (Prohibition on Disclosure) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on the twenty-eighth day after the day on which they are made.\n(2) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001;\n“appropriate authority”—\n(a)in relation to persons within England and Wales or Scotland, means the ONR;\n(b)in relation to—\n(i)persons within Northern Ireland; or\n(ii)United Kingdom persons outside the United Kingdom,\nmeans the Secretary of State;\n“enrichment equipment” means equipment which is–\n(a)specifically designed or adapted for use in connection with the enrichment of uranium, or\n(b)not so designed or adapted but likely to be of exceptional use in that connection;\n“equipment” includes–\n(a)a component of equipment, and\n(b)buildings;\n“information” does not include software;\n“the ONR” means the Office for Nuclear Regulation;\n“reckless” has the meaning given by regulation 2(2);\n“specified activity” means any of the following activities:\n(a)treating uranium to increase the proportion of the isotope 235 contained in the uranium;\n(b)manufacturing enrichment equipment;\n(c)adapting equipment which, following its adaptation, remains or becomes enrichment equipment;\n(d)testing or evaluing the proper working of enrichment equipment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 23(a) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) inserted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 23(b) (with Sch. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1818/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:22:38.425228+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."
}