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34 for preserving its effect, be construed as referring or as including a reference to this Act or the corresponding provision in this Act, as the case may be.

(7) In this section, “appointed day” means the date of commencement of the Radiation Protection Act 2007. FIRST SCHEDULE Sections 2(1) and 42 DEFINITION OF “NUCLEAR MATERIAL” 1. In this Act, “nuclear material” means—
 * (a) any source material (not being ore or ore residue); or
 * (b) any special fissionable material.

2. For the purposes of paragraph 1—
 * “source material” means—
 * (a) uranium containing the mixture of isotopes occurring in nature;
 * (b) uranium depleted in the isotope 235;
 * (c) thorium;
 * (d) any of the foregoing in the form of metal, alloy, chemical compound, or concentrate; or
 * (e) any other material containing one or more of the foregoing in such concentration as the IAEA Board of Governors shall from time to time determine;
 * “special fissionable material” means—
 * (a) plutonium-239;
 * (b) uranium-233;
 * (c) uranium containing the isotopes 235 or 233, or both, in an amount such that the abundance ratio of the sum of these isotopes to the isotope 238 is greater than the ratio of the isotope 235 to the isotope 238 occurring in nature; or
 * (d) any material containing one or more of the foregoing,
 * but does not include source material.