Review
7.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—
(a)carry out a review of the regulatory provision contained in regulations 3 to 6; and
(b)publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.
(2) The first report must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with the date on which these Regulations come into force for any purpose.
(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.
(4) Section 30(3) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(1) requires that a review carried out under this regulation must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the obligations under Articles 7(2)(b) and 7(2)(c) to the Convention on Third Party Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy of 29th July 1960, as amended by the Additional Protocol of 28th January 1964, the Protocol of 16th November 1982 and the Protocol of 12th February 2004, are implemented in other countries which are subject to the obligations.
(5) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular-
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a)
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate; and
(d)if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.
(6) In this regulation, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 (see section 32 of that Act).
2015 c.26. Section 30(3) was amended by the Enterprise Act (c.12), section 19.