SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Offences relating to nuclear material and nuclear facilities

Part 1Amendments of Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983

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1

Section 1 (extended scope of certain offences) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1)(b) (offences under certain enactments) for “section 78 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980” substitute “ section 52 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 ”.

3

After subsection (1) insert—

1A

If—

a

a person, whatever his nationality, does outside the United Kingdom an act directed at a nuclear facility, or which interferes with the operation of such a facility,

b

the act causes death, injury or damage resulting from the emission of ionising radiation or the release of radioactive material, and

c

had he done that act in any part of the United Kingdom, it would have made him guilty of an offence mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) above,

the person shall in any part of the United Kingdom be guilty of such of the offences mentioned in subsection (1)(a) and (b) as are offences of which the act would have made him guilty had he done it in that part of the United Kingdom.

4

Omit subsection (2) (definition of “act”).