Part 1The Civil Nuclear Industry

Chapter 1Nuclear decommissioning

Strategies, plans and reports

11Strategy for carrying out functions

(1)

It shall be the duty of the NDA

(a)

to prepare its strategy for carrying out its functions; and

(b)

from time to time to revise that strategy.

(2)

On the NDA being given a new responsibility for securing the decommissioning or cleaning-up of an installation or site, it must consider—

(a)

whether the objectives and policy already contained in its current strategy apply in the case of that installation or site in a manner that it considers appropriate; and

(b)

if it considers that they do not, what revision of its strategy is required.

(3)

Schedule 2 (which makes provision about the preparation and revision of the NDA’s strategy, about consultation and about the approval and publication of the strategy) has effect.