The Export of Radioactive Sources (Control) Order 2006

Interpretation U.K.

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Export Control Act 2002;

“the Commissioners” means the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs;

“controlled radioactive source” means a radionuclide of a description in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order with an activity level of that in the corresponding entry in column 2;

“customs and excise Acts” and “prescribed sum” have the same meanings as in section 1 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 M1 ;

“exportation” means (except where the context otherwise requires) exportation from the United Kingdom to any destination outside the United Kingdom and the Isle of Man; “exporter” and other cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly;

[F1 “general” in relation to a licence, means not granted to a particular person but available for use generally;]

“in transit” means imported into the United Kingdom for transit or transhipment; “transit or transhipment” means transit through the United Kingdom or transhipment with a view to re-exportation of the controlled radioactive sources in question.

[F2 “licence user” means a person who is registered under article 6 to use a general licence or who is entitled to use a general licence without registration owing to the terms of that general licence;]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in art. 2 inserted (6.4.2009) by The Export of Radioactive Sources (Control) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/585), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(a)

F2 Words in art. 2 inserted (6.4.2009) by The Export of Radioactive Sources (Control) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/585), art. 1, Sch. para. 1(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 1979 c. 2.