DC 6
App. III]
Nuclear Installations
[1972 Ed.
Interpretation.
26. (1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, that is to
say-
"excepted matter" means nuclear matter consisting only of one or more
of the following, that is to say---
(a) isotopes prepared for use for industrial, commercial agricul-
tural, medical or scientific purposes;
(b) natural uranium;
(c) any uranium of which isotope 235 forms not more than 0.72
per cent;
(d) nuclear matter of such other description, if any, as may be ex- cluded from the operation of the relevant international agreement by the relevant law;
"Governor" means:
(a) the Governor of Hong Kong;
(b) the Acting Governor of Hong Kong; and
(c) to the extent to which a deputy to the Governor of Hong Kong is authorized to perform on behalf of the Governor any functions of the Governor, the Deputy to the Governor;
"home territory", in relation to a relevant operator, means the relevant territory in which, for the purposes of a relevant international agree- ment, he is the operator of a relevant installation;
"injury" means personal injury and includes loss of life;
"nuclear matter" means, subject to any exceptions which may be
prescribed-
(a) any fissile material in the form of uranium metal, alloy or chemical compound (including natural uranium), or of plutonium metal, alloy or chemical compound, and any other fissile material which may be prescribed; and
(b) any radioactive material produced in, or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incidental to, the process of producing or utilizing any such fissile material as aforesaid;
“occurrence”, in sections 16(1) and (2) and the proviso to section 17(3) of this Act, means in the case of a continuing occurrence the whole of that occurrence;
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made by the Governor in
Council:
"relevant carriage”, in relation to nuclear matter, means carriage on behalf
of-
(a) a relevant operator; or
(b) a person authorized to operate a nuclear reactor which is com- prised in a means of transport and in which the nuclear matter in question is intended to be used;
"relevant contribution", in relation to any claim, means any sums falling by virtue of any relevant international agreement to be paid by the government of any relevant territory towards the satisfaction of that claim;
"relevant foreign judgment" means a judgment of a court of a relevant territory other than Hong Kong which, under a relevant international agreement, is to be enforceable anywhere within the relevant ter ritories;
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