The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016

Jurisdiction of courts in the United Kingdom: jurisdiction excluded

24.—(1) Section 17 of the 1965 Act (jurisdiction etc) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(1) (jurisdiction of courts in the United Kingdom, or in a part of the United Kingdom, excluded by a certificate of the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers)—

(a) omit the words “or any part thereof”;

(b) for “the Minister” substitute “the appropriate authority”;

(c) omit the words “or, as the case may be, of some other part of the United Kingdom”;

(d) omit the words “or, as the case may be, that part thereof”.

(3) Omit subsection (2) (certificate as evidence of the jurisdiction of a court in a particular part of the United Kingdom).

(4) After subsection (6) insert—

“(7) In this section “appropriate authority” means—

(a) in relation to England and Wales and Northern Ireland, the Secretary of State;

(b) in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers.”

(1)

The function conferred by section 17(1) has been transferred, in so far as it is exercisable in or as regards Scotland, to the Scottish Ministers by S.I. 1999/1750, article 2, Schedule 1.