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Ch. 57
Nuclear Installations Act 1965
Nuclear Installations Act 1965
CII. 57
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Interpretation.
1959 c. 46.
1946 c. 80.
(2) Where a body corporate is convicted on indictment of an offence under any of the following provisions of this Act, that is to say, sections 1(3), 2(2), 4(6), 5(4) and 19(5), so much of the provision in question as limits the amount of the fine which may be imposed shall not apply, and the body corporate shall be liable to a fine of such amount as the court thinks just.
(3) Proceedings in respect of any offence under this Act shall not be instituted in England or Wales except by the Minister or by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.
26.-(1) In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings respectively, that is to say-
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"the Act of 1959' means the Nuclear Installations
(Licensing and Insurance) Act 1959;
"atomic energy" has the meaning assigned by the Atomic
Energy Act 1946;
"the Authority
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means the United Kingdom Atomic
Energy Authority;
contravention", in relation to any enactment or to any condition imposed or direction given thereunder, includes a failure to comply with that enactment, con- dition or direction, and cognate expressions shall be construed accordingly ;
"" costs in the application of this Act to Scotland,
expenses;
means
"cover period" has the meaning assigned by section 19(2)
of this Act;
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excepted matter means nuclear matter consisting only
of one or more of the following, that is to say---
(a) isotopes prepared for use for industrial, com- mercial, agricultural, medical or scientific purposes:
(b) natural uranium;
(c) any uranium of which isotope 235 forms not more than 0.72 per cent. ;
(d) nuclear matter of such other description, if any, in such circumstances as may be prescribed (or, for the purposes of the application of this Act to a relevant foreign operator, as may be excluded from the operation of the relevant international agreement by the relevant foreign law);
"home territory ", in relation to a relevant foreign operator, means the relevant territory in which, for the purposes of a relevant international agreement, he is the operator of a relevant installation;
"injury" means personal injury and includes loss of life; "inspector" means an inspector appointed under section 24
of this Act;
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licensed site" means a site in respect of which a nuclear site licence has been granted, whether or not that licence remains in force;
licensee
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means a person to whom a nuclear site licence has been granted, whether or not that licence remains in force;
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"the Minister ineans-
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(a) in the application of this Act to England and Wales, the Minister of Power;
(b) in the application of this Act to Scotland, the Secretary of State ;
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nuclear installation means a nuclear reactor or an installation such as is mentioned in section 1(1)(b) of this Act;
nuclear matter means, subject to any exceptions which
may be prescribed-
(a) any fissile material in the form of uranium metal, alloy or chemical compound (including natural uranium), or of plutonium metal, alloy or chemical compound, and any other fissile material which may be prescribed; and
(b) any radioactive material produced in, or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incidental to, the process of producing or utilising any such fissile material as aforesaid;
nuclear reactor means any plant (including any machinery, equipment or appliance, whether affixed to land or not) designed or adapted for the production of atomic energy by a fission process in which a con- trolled chain reaction can be maintained without an additional source of neutrons;
nuclear site licence" has the meaning assigned by
section 1 (1) of this Act;
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occurrence in sections 16(1), 17(3) and 18 of this Act- (a) in the case of a continuing occurrence, means the whole of that occurrence; and
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