Explanatory Notes

Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001

2001 CHAPTER 24

14th December 2001

Commentary on Sections

Part 6: Weapons of Mass Destruction

Nuclear weapons

Section 49 Defences

125.This section sets out defences for lack of knowledge that a thing was a nuclear weapon or for an attempt to inform the authorities as soon as practicable after discovering that an object was a nuclear weapon.