The Transfrontier Shipment of Radioactive Waste Regulations 1993

Appeals

17.—(1) Where, except in pursuance of a direction given by the Secretary of State under regulation 16, the chief inspector under these Regulations—

(a) refuses to grant an authorisation for which an application has been made under regulation 7(1); or

(b) grants such an authorisation subject to conditions or requirements; or

(c) notifies, under paragraph (1) of regulation 11, the competent authorities of a country who have sent him such an application for approval as is mentioned in that paragraph either that he refuses to grant approval for the shipment in question, or that he requires conditions to be attached to approval; or

(d) is deemed by virtue of regulation 11(5) to have refused to grant approval for a shipment, the person applying for the authorisation for that shipment may, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), appeal to the Secretary of State.

(2) A person wishing to appeal under this regulation shall give written notice of appeal to the Secretary of State within the period specified in paragraph (3) (or such longer period as the Secretary of State may at any time allow).

(3) In the case of an appeal made by virtue of paragraph (1)(d) the period specified for the purposes of paragraph (2) is six months and, in any other case, is two months from the date on which the person entitled to make the appeal is notified that the authorisation or, as the case may be, the approval for the shipment is refused or, as the case may be, granted subject to conditions.

(4) Where by virtue of regulation 11(5) the chief inspector is deemed to have notified the competent authorities of a country that he refuses to grant approval for a shipment, he shall, for the purposes of paragraph (3), be deemed to have notified the person entitled to make the appeal of that refusal on the seventh day after the expiry of the period set for reply by regulation 11.

(5) If the appellant wishes to withdraw an appeal he shall do so by notifying the Secretary of State in writing.

(6) The appellant shall send to the Secretary of State with the notice of appeal an additional copy of the notice and two copies of—

(a) a full statement of his case;

(b) any relevant application;

(c) any authorisation or decision which is the subject matter of the appeal; and

(d) any correspondence or other documents relevant to the appeal, and the Secretary of State shall send one copy of the papers received by him to the chief inspector.

(7) Where an appeal is made to the Secretary of State he may—

(a) refer any matter involved in the appeal to a person appointed by him for that purpose;

(b) afford the appellant the opportunity of appearing before and being heard by a person appointed by him for that purpose and, in the event of the appellant choosing to take advantage of any such opportunity, the Secretary of State shall afford the same opportunity to the chief inspector.

(8) Any hearing afforded under paragraph (7)(b) may, if the person hearing the appeal so decides, be held, or held to any extent, in private.

(9) Subject to paragraph (10), on determining an appeal under this regulation the Secretary of State—

(a) may affirm the decision or deemed decision of the chief inspector;

(b) where the appeal is against the refusal or deemed refusal of the chief inspector to grant an authorisation or approval, may direct the chief inspector to grant the authorisation or approval;

(c) where the appeal is against the conditions or requirements subject to which the chief inspector granted an authorisation, or against the conditions which the chief inspector attached to a grant of an approval, may quash all or any of the conditions or requirements; and where he exercises any of the powers in sub-paragraphs (b) or (c), he may give directions to the chief inspector as to the conditions or requirements to be attached to the authorisation or approval, and the chief inspector shall give effect to any directions given to him by the Secretary of State under this paragraph.

(10) No direction given by the Secretary of State under paragraph (9) may require the chief inspector to take any action which would be either contrary to, or not within the powers conferred upon him by, any of the provisions of these Regulations apart from this regulation.