Part 1

The Civil Nuclear Industry
Chapter 1

Nuclear decommissioning

Implementation of strategies and plans

Designation as a related site for the purposes of s. 18
19
1
A direction designating a contaminated site—
a
may specify that the site is to be treated for the purposes of section 18 as a related site; and
b
if it does so, must specify the installation, site or facility by reference to which the Secretary of State is satisfied as mentioned in subsection (2)(a).
2
A direction must not specify that a site is to be treated as a related site unless—
a
the Secretary of State is satisfied that it has become contaminated (whether radioactively or chemically) as a result of nuclear activities in or on a particular installation, site or facility;
b
that installation, site or facility was at the time of the contamination, or subsequently became, a nuclear installation, a principal nuclear site or an NDA facility;
c
the installation, site or facility is also designated (whether by that direction or as a consequence of a previous direction); and
d
the person with control of that installation, site or facility—
i
is a Crown appointee, the UKAEA, a publicly owned company or the NDA itself; or
ii
has consented to the specification of the installation, site or facility for the purposes of subsection (1)(b).
3
On the giving by the Secretary of State of a direction specifying that a site is to be treated as a related site, he must send a copy of the direction to every person with control of an installation, site or facility by reference to which it is to be so treated.
4
For the purposes of this section something is contaminated as a result of nuclear activities in or on a particular installation, site or facility if the contamination (whenever occurring), or any of it, is the direct or indirect result of one or more of the following—
a
activities carried on in or on that installation, site or facility;
b
the storage or disposal of any matter or substance in or on that installation, site or facility;
c
an incident occurring in or on that installation, site or facility;
d
the discharge of anything from that installation, site or facility;
e
the transportation of hazardous material to or from that installation, site or facility;
f
an incident affecting hazardous material being transported to or from that installation, site or facility.
S. 19 in force at 5.10.2004 by S.I. 2004/2575, art. 2(1), Sch. 1