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.