Atomic Energy Authority (Weapons Group) Act 1973
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1973 c. 4 |
(1) On a day appointed by the Secretary of State by order made by statutory instrument the undertaking of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (“the Authority”) shall cease to comprise so much of it as is known as the Weapons Group; and it shall on and after that date, be for the Secretary of State (and not the Authority, except under contract to the Secretary of State, or by his direction or with his approval) to carry on any activities which before that day were activities of the Group and involved the doing of work on explosive nuclear devices.all such lands and premises as immediately before the appointed day are the property of the Authority and were on 1st November 1972 the property of the Authority and recorded in the Authority’s books as held by the Weapons Group;without prejudice to the foregoing but subject to the following subsection, all such property, rights, liabilities and obligations as immediately before the appointed day belonged to or were incumbent upon the Authority and appertained to the Weapons Group.any contract of employment;any agreement for the rendering by a person of services to the Authority in his capacity as a member of the Authority; orany pension scheme or agreement relating to a pension scheme;(1) Every person who, immediately before the appointed day, is an employee of the Authority engaged in the Weapons Group shall on that day cease to be employed by the Authority but may, in pursuance of arrangements made by the Secretary of State in connection with the transfer to him of the Weapons Group, be taken into employment in the civil service of the State; and notwithstanding anything in section 22 of the (2) Nothing in subsection (1) above affects the office of special constable held by any person who, immediately before the appointed day, is a special constable by virtue of section 3 of the on or after the appointed day ceases to be employed by the Authority (whether under subsection (1) above or otherwise) and as from ceasing to be so employed becomes employed in the civil service of the State in pursuance of the arrangements referred to in subsection (1) ; andwas, immediately before ceasing to be so employed, included in a pension scheme maintained by the Authority or would (had he remained in that employment) have become eligible for inclusion in such a pension scheme on attaining an age or fulfilling a condition specified in the scheme,(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(4) (5) Before confers or imposes on the Authority any rights, liabilities or obligations which are transferred to the Secretary of State by virtue of section 1 of this Act; andrefers (in whatever terms, and whether expressly or by implication) to the Authority or to a member or officer of the Authority,(2) Where any right, liability or obligation is transferred to the Secretary of State by virtue of this Act, he and all other persons shall, on and after the appointed day, have the same rights, powers and remedies (and in particular, the same rights as to the taking or resisting of legal proceedings) for ascertaining, perfecting or enforcing that right, liability or obligation as they would have had if it had at all times been a right, liability or obligation of the Secretary of State;(3) In subsection (2) above, any reference to legal proceedings shall be construed as including a reference to any application to an authority, and any reference to the taking or resisting of legal proceedings shall be construed accordingly.(4) Any instrument shall, so far as may be necessary for or in consequence of any transfer
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