Schedule 23, Part 2, paragraph 1(1)

In this Schedule— “article” includes a part of an article; “Bq” means becquerels; “contamination” occurs where a substance or article is so affected by— as to become radioactive or to possess increased radioactivity; absorption, admixture or adhesion of radioactive material or radioactive waste, or the emission of neutrons or ionising radiation, “disposal” in relation to waste includes its removal, deposit, destruction, discharge (whether into water or into the air or into a sewer or drain or otherwise) or burial (whether underground or otherwise) and “dispose of” is to be construed accordingly; “m”, where it appears after a radionuclide, means a radionuclide in a metastable state of radioactive decay in which gamma photons are emitted; “mobile radioactive apparatus” means any apparatus, equipment, appliance or other thing which is radioactive material and— is constructed or adapted for being transported from place to place, or is portable and designed or intended to be used for releasing radioactive material into the environment or introducing it into organisms; “nuclear site” means— and “licensee”, when used in relation to a nuclear site, and “period of responsibility” have the same meaning as in the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 ; any site in respect of which a nuclear site licence is for the time being in force, or any site in respect of which, after the revocation or surrender of a nuclear site licence, the period of responsibility of the licensee has not yet come to an end, “premises” includes any land, whether covered by buildings or not, including any place underground and any land covered by water; “relevant liquid” means a liquid which— is non-aqueous, or is classified (or would be so classified in the absence of its radioactivity) under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures as having any of the following hazard classes and hazard categories (as defined in that Regulation)— acute toxicity: categories 1, 2 or 3, skin corrosion/irritation: category 1 corrosive, sub-categories: 1A, 1B or 1C, or hazardous to the aquatic environment: acute category 1 or chronic categories 1 or 2; “substance” means any natural or artificial substance, whether in solid or liquid form or in the form of a gas or vapour; “Table 1”, “Table 2”, “Table 3” mean the tables with those numbers in Part 3 of this Schedule; “undertaking” includes any trade, business or profession and— in relation to a public or local authority, includes any of the powers or duties of that authority; in relation to any other body of persons (whether corporate or unincorporate), includes any of the activities of that body; “waste” should be construed in accordance with paragraph 3(2).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-07-30