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50Interpretation of Chapter 2 of Part 1U.K.
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(1)In this Chapter —
“nuclear company” means a body corporate with control of a designated installation, designated site or designated facility;
“publicly controlled” is to be construed in accordance with subsection (3).
(2)Expressions used in this Chapter and in Chapter 1 of this Part have the same meanings in this Chapter as in that Chapter.
(3)For the purposes of this Chapter a body corporate is a publicly controlled company if it is a company limited by shares that is either publicly owned or is otherwise a company in which—
(a)a person specified in subsection (4) holds a majority of the voting rights; or
(b)two or more persons so specified, taken together, hold a majority of the voting rights.
(4)The persons mentioned in subsection (3) are—
(a)the Treasury;
(b)a Minister of the Crown;
(c)the NDA;
(d)the UKAEA;
(e)a publicly owned company; or
(f)a nominee of a person falling within paragraphs (a) to (e).
(5)In this section “company” has the same meaning as in the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6).
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