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Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 14 Cited in Amendments 58 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation2000 c. 5
Year2000
(1) In this Act—
  • “Additional Protocol” means the protocol signed at Vienna F18on 7th June 2018 additional to the Safeguards Agreement;
  • “Additional Protocol information” means information which the Secretary of State F2or the Office for Nuclear Regulation needs or will need in order to enable the obligations of the United Kingdom under Article 2 of... the Additional Protocol to be met;
  • “Agency” means the International Atomic Energy Agency;
  • “Agency inspector” means a person designated under F20Article 83 of the Safeguards Agreement or Article 11 of the Additional Protocol;
  • “authorised officer” means a person authorised by the F3Office for Nuclear Regulation for the purpose of exercising powers under this Act; and
  • “Safeguards Agreement” means the agreement made F21on 7th June 2018 between the United Kingdom and the Agency for the application of safeguards in the United Kingdom in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
(2) References in the following provisions of this Act to Articles or Annexes are to articles of or annexes to the Additional Protocol.(3) For the purposes of this Act the text of the Additional Protocol is that signed on F227th June 2018 but subject, in the case of Annexes I and II, to any amendments made under Article 16.b.(1) No obligation as to secrecy or other restriction on disclosure (whether imposed by statute or otherwise) prevents a person voluntarily giving information to the F4Office for Nuclear Regulation if that person has reasonable cause to believe that it is Additional Protocol information.within a period or at times specified in the notice; andif the notice so provides, in such form as the notice may require.must be information which the F6Office for Nuclear Regulation has reasonable cause to believe is Additional Protocol information; andmay relate to a state of affairs subsisting before the coming into force of this Act or of the Additional Protocol.(4) A notice shall not require a person to give information which is required only for the purposes of sub-paragraph (ii) of Article 2.a. unless the notice sets out the terms, agreed by the United Kingdom, in which the Agency has identified information for the purposes of that sub-paragraph.(5) A person who refuses or fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a notice is guilty of an offence.(6) The duty to comply with a notice is not affected by any obligation or restriction mentioned in subsection (1) .(7) A person on whom a notice is served shall keep and retain such records of information in his possession (and retain any existing records) as may be necessary to enable him to comply with the notice; and a failure to do so shall be taken into account in proceedings for an offence under subsection (5) in determining whether a reasonable excuse exists for a refusal or failure to comply with the notice.(8) In this section “notice” means a notice served under subsection (2) .(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations requiring persons of any description specified in the regulations to inform F7the Office for Nuclear Regulation that they are of such a description and to give such supplementary particulars as may be so specified.persons about whose activities the United Kingdom is or will be obliged under the Additional Protocol to provide information to the Agency; orother persons likely to be in possession of information which the F8Office for Nuclear Regulation has reasonable cause to believe is Additional Protocol information.require persons to notify the F9Office for Nuclear Regulation of changes in their circumstances; andinclude incidental and supplementary provisions.(3A) The Secretary of State must consult the Office for Nuclear Regulation before making regulations under this section unless the regulations give effect, without modification, to any proposals for them submitted by the Office for Nuclear Regulation under section 81(1) (a) (v) of the Energy Act 2013.(4) Regulations under this section shall be made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.(5) If regulations are made under this section the F11Office for Nuclear Regulation shall arrange for a statement of the fact that they have been made to be published in such manner as is likely to bring them to the attention of persons affected by them.(6) A person who fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a requirement imposed by regulations under this section is guilty of an offence.

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