The Radioactive Substances (Substances of Low Activity) Exemption (Amendment) Order 1992

This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct an error in S.I.1986/1002 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 647

ATOMIC ENERGY AND RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES

The Radioactive Substances (Substances of Low Activity) Exemption (Amendment) Order 1992

Made

10th March 1992

Laid before Parliament

11th March 1992

Coming into force

2nd April 1992

The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales as respects Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6(5) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Radioactive Substances (Substances of Low Activity) Exemption (Amendment) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 2nd April 1992.

2.  In article 3(b) of the Radioactive Substances (Substances of Low Activity) Exemption Order 1986(2) for “0.4” substitute “4”.

Michael Heseltine

Secretary of State for the Environment

9th March 1992

David Hunt

Secretary of State for Wales

10th March 1992

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

10th March 1992

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order corrects an error in article 3(b) of the Radioactive Substances (Substances of Low Activity) Exemption Order 1986 (“the 1986 Order”).

The 1986 Order is concerned with exemptions and exclusions under the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 (“the 1960 Act”) in respect of certain substances of low radioactivity.

Article 3(b) of the 1986 Order excludes from the controls on the disposal of radioactive waste in section 6(1) and (3) of the 1960 Actthe disposal of organic liquid waste which is radioactive solely because of the presence of carbon 14, or tritium (or both), the activity of which when it becomes waste, does not exceed 0.4 becquerels per millilitre.

This Order substitutes “4” for “0.4” in article 3(b) of the 1986 Order.

(1)

1960 c. 34; a relevant amendment was made by section 100(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43).

(2)

S.I. 1986/1002.