The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel) (England) Regulations 2020

19.—(1) A person who is—

(a) nuclear personnel, and who is essential to the safe and secure operations of a site in respect of which a nuclear site licence has been granted,

(b) a nuclear emergency responder,

(c) an agency inspector, or

(d) a Euratom inspector, provided that they arrive in the United Kingdom before IP completion day,

where they have travelled to the United Kingdom in the course of their work.

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1)—

(a) “agency inspector” has the meaning given in section 1(1) of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000(1),

(b) “nuclear emergency responder” means a person providing assistance to the United Kingdom in accordance with the Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency done at Vienna on 26 September 1986, who has been duly notified to and accepted by the United Kingdom, where the United Kingdom has requested assistance under that Convention,

(c) “Euratom inspector” means an inspector sent to the United Kingdom by the Commission of the European Union in accordance with Articles 81 and 82 of the Euratom Treaty,

(d) “nuclear personnel” means—

(i) a worker who is employed to carry out work on or in relation to a site in respect of which a nuclear site licence has been granted, or

(ii) an employee of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority(2),

(e) “nuclear site licence” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965(3).

(1)

2000 c. 5

(2)

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority was established by section 1 of the Energy Act 2004.

(3)

1965 c. 57. Section 1 was substituted by paragraph 17 of Schedule 2 to the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32); by virtue of section 1(2), a licence described in section 1(1) is referred to as a “nuclear site licence”.