| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1994/968 |
| Year | 1994 |
1994 No. 968
OFFICIAL SECRETS
The Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1994
Made 28th March 1994
Coming into force 1st April 1994
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 3(c) of the Official Secrets Act 19111, I hereby make the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
2. The Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 19752and the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) (Amendment) Order 19933are hereby revoked.
3. Each of the places specified—
(a) in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, being a site to which a permit applies within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Installations Act 19654; or
(b) in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, being a site belonging to or used for the purposes of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority,
is, on the ground that information with respect thereto, or damage thereto, would be useful to an enemy, hereby declared to be a prohibited place for the purposes of section 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911.
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
28th March 1994
SCHEDULE
Article 3
PROHIBITED PLACES
PART I
The British Nuclear Fuels plc site at Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG.
The British Nuclear Fuels plc site at Capenhurst, near Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6ER.
The Urenco (Capenhurst) Limited site at Capenhurst, near Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6ER.
PART II
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site at Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RA.
The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site at Windscale, Seascale, Cumbria,CA20 1PF.
(This note is not part of the Order)
Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, as amended, defines the expression “prohibited place” for the purposes of that Act, and paragraph (c) of that section enables certain places not otherwise within the definition to be declared prohibited places by Order.
Accordingly, this Order declares the places specified in the Schedule to be prohibited places for the purposes of the 1911 Act. The Order also revokes the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1975 and the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) (Amendment)...
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