SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12Minor and consequential amendments relating to Part 3

PART 4Nuclear safeguards

Atomic Energy Act 1946 (c. 80)

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(1)

Section 4 (power to obtain information of materials, plants and processes) is amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1), at the beginning insert “ Subject to subsection (1A) ”.

(3)

After subsection (1) insert—

“(1A)

No notice may be served under subsection (1) which imposes a requirement which could be imposed—

(a)

by a notice served by the Office for Nuclear Regulation under section 97 of the Energy Act 2013 (power of ONR to obtain information), or

(b)

by an authorised inspector under paragraph 15 of Schedule 8 to that Act (power of inspectors to require information and documents).”.