Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 1242 (C.52)

NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS

The Nuclear Safeguards Act Commencement (No.1) Order 2004

Made

30th April 2004

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 12(2) of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000(1), hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Nuclear Safeguards Act Commencement (No. 1) Order 2004.

(2) In this Order, “the Act” means the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000.

Commencement

2. —Subject to article 3 below, the Act shall come into force on 1^st May 2004.

3. The following provisions of the Act shall not come into force on 1^st May 2004:

(a)Section 5(1)(b); and

(b)In Section 5(2), the words “or Article 9 (if it falls within subsection (1)(b))” and “procedural arrangements for wide-area environmental sampling approved under Article 9”.

Nigel Griffiths,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Small Business and Enterprise,

Department of Trade and Industry

30th April 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the provisions of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000, except for Article 5(1)(b) and certain provisions of 5(2) both of which relate to matters which will come into force at a later date.

(1)

2000 c. 5.