SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 23Legislation no longer of practical use

PART 3Energy

Atomic Energy Act 1946 (c. 80)

14

Omit sections 6 and 7 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Atomic Energy Act 1946 (which confer powers to do work for the purpose of discovering certain minerals and to compulsorily acquire rights to work such minerals).

15

1

The following amendments are made in consequence of paragraph 14.

2

In the 1946 Act—

a

in section 15(1), omit the words “, except an order made under section seven thereof or an order varying or revoking such an order,”;

b

in section 16, omit the words from “Provided that” to the end of the section;

c

in section 19, omit paragraphs (c) and (d);

d

in section 20(1), omit the words “, except sections six and seven thereof,”.

3

In the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954, in Schedule 3, omit—

a

the paragraph beginning “In subsection (1) of section seven”;

b

the paragraph beginning “At the end of section sixteen”;

c

the paragraph beginning “In paragraph (c) of section nineteen”.