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Ch. 57
Nuclear Installations Act 1965
Nuclear Installations Act 1965
CI. 57
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Maintenance
of list of licensed sites.
from anything on the site or, as the case may be, on that part thereof;
(b) the date when a new nuclear site licence in respect of a site comprising the site in question or, as the case may be, that part thereof is granted either to the same licensee or to some other person,
except that it does not include any period during which section 19(1) of this Act does not apply in relation to the site.
(4) If the licensee contravenes any direction for the time being in force under subsection (2) of this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and be liable-
(a) on summary conviction—
(i) in the case of a first offence under this sub- section, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds;
(ii) in the case of a second or subsequent offence under this subsection, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding two hundred pounds, or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding one year, or to both ;
and any person who without reasonable cause pulls down, injures or defaces any notice posted in pursuance of the said sub- section (2) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
(5) For the purposes of subsection (4)(a) of this section, a conviction under section 2(4) of the Act of 1959 by reason of a contravention of a direction in force under section 2(2) of that Act shall be deemed to be a conviction of an offence under subsection (4) of this section.
6.—(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Minister shall maintain a list showing every site in respect of which a nuclear site licence has been granted by him and including a map or maps showing the position and limits of each such site, and make arrangements for the list or a copy thereof to be available for inspection by the public; and he shall cause notice of those arrangements to be made public in such manner as may appear to him appropriate.
(2) The said list shall not be required to show any site or part of a site in the case of which-
(a) no nuclear site licence is for the time being in force:
and
(b) thirty years have elapsed since the expiration of the last
licensee's period of responsibility.
Duty of licensee, etc., in respect of nuclear occurrences 7.--(1) Where a nuclear site licence has been granted in Duty of respect of any site, it shall be the duty of the licensee to secure that-
(a) no such occurrence involving nuclear matter as is mentioned in subsection (2) of this section causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee, being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties, or a combination of those and any toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties, of that nuclear matter; and
(b) no ionising radiations emitted during the period of the
licensee's responsibility-
(i) from anything caused or suffered by the licensee to be on the site which is not nuclear matter; or
(ii) from any waste discharged (in whatever form) on or from the site,
cause injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than the licensee.
(2) The occurrences referred to in subsection (1)(a) of this section are-
(a) any occurrence on the licensed site during the period of the licensee's responsibility, being an occurrence involving nuclear matter;
licensee of licensed site.
(b) any occurrence elsewhere than on the licensed site involving nuclear matter which is not excepted matter and which at the time of the occurrence-
(i) is in the course of carriage on behalf of the licensee as licensee of that site; or
(ii) is in the course of carriage to that site with the agreement of the licensee from a place outside the relevant territories; and
(iii) in either case, is not on any other relevant site in the United Kingdom;
(c) any occurrence elsewhere than on the licensed site involving nuclear matter which is not excepted matter and which-
(i) having been on the licensed site at any time during the period of the licensee's responsibility;
or
(ii) having been in the course of carriage on behalf of the licensee as licensee of that site,
has not subsequently been on any relevant site, or in the course of any relevant carriage, or (except in the