UK Act of Parliament 1993 United Kingdom

Radioactive Substances Act 1993

Enforced by
ONR, SEPA
Status
Amended (in force with amendments)

What it defines

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

67 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Meaning of “radioactive material” and “radioactive waste”
s.001 NORM industrial activities
s.001 Processed radionuclides of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin
s.001 Radionuclides not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin
s.001 Dilution to reduce concentration of radioactivity: Northern Ireland
s.001 Radionuclides with a short half-life
s.001 Radionuclides not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin in background radioactivity
s.001 Contaminated substances or articles
s.001 Historic radium contamination: Northern Ireland
s.001 Substances or articles after disposal
s.001 Variation of tables in Schedule 1A
s.014 Radioactive waste: requirements to be imposed on persons authorised to dispose of and accumulate radioactive waste: Northern Ireland
s.016 Transfer of authorisations
s.017 Review of authorisations and inspection of premises authorised in this Act
s.030 Recovery and disposal of orphan sources
s.034 Offences of making false or misleading statements or false entries.
Schedules

Schedules

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62 other schedules
s.sch002 A person entering upon any premises in the exercise of...
s.sch002 This Schedule shall have effect in relation to Scotland with...
s.sch002 Where it is shown to the satisfaction of a justice...
s.sch002 A justice of the peace shall not grant a warrant...
s.sch002 Every warrant granted under this Schedule shall remain in force...
s.sch002 Any person who, in the exercise of a power conferred...
s.sch002 Before a person carries out any test on any premises,...
s.sch002 Any power of entry conferred by this Act shall, if...
s.sch002 Any power of entry, or of carrying out tests or...
s.sch002 In this Schedule any reference to a case of emergency...
s.sch003 Sections 48, 81, 82, 141, 259 and 261 of the...
s.sch003 Section 18 of the Water Act 1945 so far as...
s.sch003 Section 155 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009....
s.sch003 The Environmental Permitting Regulations , insofar as they relate to...
s.sch003 Sections . . . 32, 41, 42 and 116 of...
s.sch003 Section 16 of the Clean Air Act 1993.
s.sch003 The Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968.
s.sch003 The Planning (Hazardous Substances) (Scotland) Act 1997 .
s.sch003 Section 201 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973.
s.sch003 Sections 30A , 30B, 30D, 41 to 42B and 56(1)...
s.sch003 Sections 70, 71 and 75 of the Water (Scotland) Act...
s.sch003 Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
s.sch003 Sections 50, 51 and 58 of the Public Health (Ireland)...
s.sch003 Section 26 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890....
s.sch003 Section 16 of the Clean Air Act 1993.
s.sch003 Sections 35, 46, 49 and 51 of the Public Health...
s.sch003 Sections 26, 47 and 124 of the Fisheries Act (Northern...
s.sch003 Articles 5, 7, 9 7A , 14, 16 and 30...
s.sch003 Articles 112, 168 and 170(5) and Chapter III of Part...
s.sch003 The Clean Air (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.
s.sch003 The Pollution Control (Special Waste) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1981.
s.sch003 Part 7 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern...
s.sch003 . . . . . . . . . . . .
s.sch003 Section 4 of the Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act 1975....
s.sch003 Section 59 of the Building Act 1984.
s.sch003 The Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990.
s.sch003 Part III of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
s.sch003 Sections 72, 111 and 113(6) and Chapter III of Part...
s.sch003 Sections 82, 84, 85, 86, 87(1), 88(2) , 92, 93,...
s.sch004 In section 7 of the Continental Shelf Act 1964, for...
s.sch004 After paragraph 10 of the Schedule to the Atomic Weapons...
s.sch004 In section 98 of the Water Resources Act 1991—
s.sch004 In section 4(1)(d) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965, for...
s.sch004 In section 56(6) of the Control of Pollution Act 1974,...
s.sch004 In article 36(4) of the Pollution Control and Local Government...
s.sch004 In section 4(1) of the Atomic Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act...
s.sch004 In section 28(2) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990, for...
s.sch004 In section 78 of that Act, for “Radioactive Substances Act...
s.sch004 In section 142(7) of that Act, for “the Radioactive Substances...
s.sch004 In section 156 of that Act, for “Radioactive Substances Act...
s.sch005 The substitution of this Act for the enactments repealed by...
s.sch005 (1) If— (a) no date has been appointed before the...
s.sch005 Until the commencement of the repeal by Part II of...
s.sch005 Until the commencement of the repeal by Part II of...
s.sch005 Any reference, whether express or implied, in this Act or...
s.sch005 Any document made, served or issued after the commencement of...
s.sch005 Paragraphs 2 and 3 have effect without prejudice to the...
s.sch005 The power to amend or revoke the subordinate legislation reproduced...
s.sch005 Subsection (1) of section 80 of the Health and Safety...
s.sch005 In the application of paragraph 6 to Northern Ireland^
s.sch005 (1) If— (a) no date has been appointed before the...
s.sch005 (1) If— (a) no date has been appointed before the...

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