Atomic Energy Authority Act 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1971 c. 11 |
so much of the undertaking of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (in this Act referred to as “the Authority”) as, immediately before that day, is financed out of the Authority’s trading fund and is not excepted from this paragraph by subsection (2) of this section;all such property, rights, liabilities and obligations as, immediately before the appointed day, are property, rights, liabilities and obligations of the Authority appertaining to that part of the Authority’s undertaking which falls within paragraph (a) of this subsection and are not excepted from this paragraph by or under subsection (2) of this section or section 3, section 5 or section 6 of this Act; andall such lands and premises as immediately before the appointed day are the property of the Authority at Springfields in the county of Lancaster of at Windscale in the county of Cumberland and do not fall within paragraph (b) of this subsection.from paragraph (a) of the preceding subsection, so much of the undertaking of the Authority as immediately before the appointed day is carried on at the Authority’s Radiochemical Centre at Amersham in the County of Buckingham (in this Act referred to as “the Radiochemical Centre”) , or is carried on at the Authority’s establishment at Harwell in the county of Berkshire, andfrom paragraph (b) of that subsection, all such lands and premises as immediately before that day are occupied for the purposes of the Authority’s establishment at Risley in the county of Lancaster (whether any such lands or premises are situated in that county or in the county of Chester) .(3) For the purposes of this and the next following section any part of the Authority’s undertaking shall be taken to be financed out of the Authority’s trading fund at any time if the expenses of the Authority in carrying on that part of the undertaking are at that time treated in the accounts of the Authority as payable out of that fund.so much of the undertaking of the Authority as immediately before that day is financed out of the Authority’s trading fund and is carried on at the Radiochemical Centre or at the Authority’s establishment at Harwell; andall such property, rights, liabilities and obligations as, immediately before that day, are property, rights,liabilities and obligations of the Authority appertaining to that part of the Authority’s undertaking which falls within paragraph (a) of this subsection and are not excepted from this paragraph by or under subsection (2) of this section or section 3, section 5 or section 6 of this Act.(2) There are excepted from paragraph (b) of the preceding subsection all lands and premises forming part of the Authority’s establishment at Harwell.any patent, registered design or registered trade mark, orany application for the grant of a patent, or for the registration of a design or of a trade mark, which is pending immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of section 1 or section 2 of this Act, as the case may be, orany invention in respect of which an application for a patent is pending as mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection or which, in pursuance of arrangements made in that behalf by the Authority, is recorded as having been made before the day mentioned in that paragraph.any rights, liabilities or obligations of the Authority in respect of any licence to use a patented invention, registered design or registered trade mark, or to use an invention, design or trade mark in respect of which an application for a patent, or for registration of the design or trade mark, is pending, whether any such licence was granted by or to the Authority, including any rights to grant sub-licences under any such licence;any rights, liabilities or obligations of the Authority arising under any assignment (whether by or to the Authority) of a patent, registered design or registered trade mark, or of the right to apply for or to obtain any patent or to apply for or to obtain registration of a design or trade mark; andany rights, liabilities or obligations of the Authority under any agreement in so far as it provides (whether conditionally or otherwise) for any such licence or sub-licence as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or any such assignment as is mentioned in paragraph (b) of this subsection to be granted or made in the future or for the furnishing of information or technical assistance relating to any invention, design or trade mark, whether actual or prospective.
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