Amendment of sections 18 and 19 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965
4 Effect of grant of new nuclear site licence to existing licensee.
1
In section 19 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (duty of licensee to provide insurance or other cover)—
a
in subsection (2), for the words from “subject to subsection (2A)” to the end of paragraph (c) there shall be substituted the words “
, subject to the following provisions of this section, the period of the licensee’s responsibility;
”
; and
b
the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (2A)—
2B
The current cover period continues to run (and no new cover period begins) on the grant of a new nuclear site licence to the same licensee in respect of a site consisting of or including the site in respect of which his existing nuclear site licence is in force.
2
The amendments made by this section shall be deemed always to have had effect.