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20 Furnishing of information relating to licensee’s [F1or operator’s] cover.U.K.

(1)In the case of each licensed site, the licensee shall give notice in writing to [F2the appropriate authority] forthwith [F3upon its appearing to the licensee that claims such as are mentioned in section 19(1) made in respect of any cover period falling within the period of the licensee’s responsibility have reached a notice level.

(1A)For the purposes of subsection (1), claims made in respect of a cover period reach a notice level if the aggregate amount of claims of a particular category so made reaches three-fifths of the required amount appropriate to that category of claim.

(1B)In subsection (1A) references to a category of claim and the required amount are to be construed in accordance with section 19.

(1C)Where] the licensee has given such a notice, no payment by way of settlement of any claim in respect of the cover period in question by agreement between the licensee and the claimant shall be made except after consultation with [F4the appropriate authority] and in accordance with the terms of any direction which [F4the appropriate authority] may give to the licensee in writing with respect to any particular claim.

(2)If in the case of any licensed site any cover period falling within the period of the licensee’s responsibility has ended, the licensee shall not later than 31st January in each year send to [F5the appropriate authority] in writing a statement showing the date when that cover period ended and the following particulars of any claims in respect of that cover period as at the beginning and end respectively of the last preceding calendar year, that is to say—

(a)the aggregate number of claims received;

(b)the aggregate number of claims established; and

(c)the aggregate number and aggregate amount of claims satisfied.

(3)[F6The appropriate authority] shall as soon as may be lay before each House of Parliament a copy of any notice received by [F7the appropriate authority] under subsection (1) of this section and a report (in such form as, having regard to section 16 of this Act, [F8the appropriate authority] may consider appropriate) with respect to any statements received by [F7the appropriate authority] under subsection (2) of this section.

(4)Any person by whom any funds such as are mentioned in section 19(1) of this Act for the time being fall to be provided shall give to [F9the appropriate authority] not less than two months notice in writing before ceasing to keep those funds available and, notwithstanding any such notice, so far as those funds relate to nuclear matter for the time being in the course of carriage, shall not so cease while that carriage continues.

[F10(5)Subsections (1) to (4) apply in relation to the operator of a relevant disposal site with the following modifications—

(a)as if a reference to the licensee of a site with a nuclear site licence were a reference to the operator of a relevant disposal site;

(b)as if a reference to a licensed site were a reference to a relevant disposal site;

(c)as if a reference to the period of a licensee’s responsibility were a reference to the period indicated by section 7B(1)(f).]

[F11(6)In this section “appropriate authority” means—

(a)in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State;

(b)in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.]

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 20 heading inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(8) (with art. 40)

F2Words in s. 20(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(2)(a) (with art. 40)

F3S. 20(1A)-(1C) and words substituted for words in s. 20(1) (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(2)(b) (with art. 40)

F4Words in s. 20(1) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(2)(c) (with art. 40)

F5Words in s. 20(2) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(3) (with art. 40)

F6Words in s. 20(3) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(4)(a) (with art. 40)

F7Words in s. 20(3) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(4)(b) (with art. 40)

F8Words in s. 20(3) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(4)(c) (with art. 40)

F9Words in s. 20(4) substituted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(5) (with art. 40)

F10S. 20(5) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(6) (with art. 40)

F11S. 20(6) inserted (coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5) of the amending S.I.) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 33(7) (with art. 40)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 20: transfer of certain functions (S.) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1(1), 2, Sch. 1 (with art. 7); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3

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