SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 3

PART 5Other enactments

Explosives Act 1875 (c. 17)

52In section 74 (seizure and detention of explosives liable to forfeiture), after subsection (6) insert the following paragraphs—

In this section, any reference to an inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive under section 19 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (“the 1974 Act”) is to be read, in relation to anything found on a relevant nuclear site, as a reference to an inspector appointed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation under that section.

For this purpose a relevant nuclear site is one in relation to which the Office for Nuclear Regulation has responsibility for the enforcement of any of the relevant statutory provisions (within the meaning of Part 1 of the 1974 Act) by virtue of section 18(1A) or (2) of the 1974 Act.