SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 22Minor and consequential amendments

The Radioactive Substances Act 1993

217(1)Section 30 of that Act (power of Secretary of State to dispose of radioactive waste) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2)In subsection (1) (which confers the power)—

(a)for the words “the Secretary of State”, in the first place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “the appropriate Agency”;

(b)for those words, wherever else occurring, there shall be substituted the words “that Agency”; and

(c)for the word “his” there shall be substituted the word “its”.

(3)In subsection (3) (application of certain definitions of “owner”) for the words “Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “Environment Agency”.

(4)In subsection (4) (adaptations for Scotland) for the words “the Secretary of State” there shall be substituted the words “SEPA”.