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Nuclear Safeguards and Electricity (Finance) Act 1978

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited in Amendments 34 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1978 c. 25
Year1978
(1) The provisions of sections 2 and 3 below shall have effect for the purpose of enabling effect to be given in the United Kingdom to the Agreement F10made on 7th June 2018 at Vienna between the United Kingdom and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the application of Safeguards in the United Kingdom in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.the Agreement any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article of the Safeguards Agreement which bears that number.making any inspection permitted by F14articles 69 to 82; orverifying design information, as mentioned in F15article 48,shall be exercisable only in accordance with F16articles 4, 9(c) and 85; ... andF18where article 81 applies, shall not be exercisable unless any advance notice required by that article has been given.subsection (3) of section 6 of the sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the a person designated as an inspector of the International Atomic Energy Agency under article 85 of the Agreement made on the 6th September 1976 for the application of Safeguards in the United Kingdom in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Cmnd. 6730) intentionally obstructs any person exercising a power conferred by subsection (1) above; orwithout reasonable excuse refuses or fails to provide any information or to permit any inspection reasonably required by any such person; orwithout reasonable excuse refuses or fails to carry out in a facility any operation which he is requested to carry out by a person designated as mentioned in subsection (1) above,on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; andon conviction on indictment, to a fine.on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; andon conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(7) In this section “facility” has the meaning assigned to it by F19article 90I.(8) If in any proceedings any question arises whether a person at any time when purporting to exercise powers under this section was or was not a person designated as mentioned in subsection (1) above, a certificate issued by or under the authority of the F7Office for Nuclear Regulation stating any fact relevant to that question shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

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