Radioactive Substances Act 1960 (repealed 27.8.1993)

7 Accumulation of radioactive waste. U.K.

(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, as from the appointed day no person shall, except in accordance with an authorisation granted in that behalf under this section, accumulate (with a view to the subsequent disposal thereof) any radioactive waste on any premises which are used for the purposes of an undertaking carried on by him, or cause or permit any radioactive waste to be so accumulated, if (in any such case) he knows or has reasonable grounds for believing it to be radioactive waste.

(2) Where the disposal of any radioactive waste has been authorised under the last preceding section, and in accordance with that authorisation the waste is required or permitted to be accumulated with a view to the subsequent disposal thereof, no further authorisation under this section shall be required to enable the waste to be accumulated in accordance with the authorisation granted under the last preceding section.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to the accumulation of radioactive waste on—

(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(b) any premises situated on a site in respect of which a nuclear site licence is for the time being in force, or

(c) any premises situated on a site in respect of which, after the revocation or surrender of a nuclear site licence, the period of responsibility of the licensee has not come to an end.

(4) The provisions of subsections (4) and (5) of the last preceding section shall apply for the purposes of this section, as if in those provisions any reference to subsection (1) or subsection (3) of that section were a reference to subsection (1) of this section, and any reference to disposal were a reference to accumulation.

(5) For the purposes of this section, where radioactive material is produced, kept or used on any premises, and any substance arising from the production, keeping or use of that material is accumulated in a part of the premises appropriated for the purpose, and is retained there for a period of not less than three months, that substance shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed—

(a) to be radioactive waste, and

(b) to be accumulated on the premises with a view to the subsequent disposal thereof.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 7(3)(a) repealed by Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43, SIF 46:4), ss. 103, 162(2), Sch. 16 Pt. V

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 7 certain functions of Minister of Agriculture transferred by S.I. 1978/272, art. 2

C2 S. 7(1) excluded by S.I. 1985/1047, art. 6(1), S.I. 1985/1048, art. 6, S.I. 1985/1049, art. 8(2), S.I. 1990/2512, art. 5 and excluded for Northern Ireland by S.R. 1986/10, art. 7(1)(2), S.R. 1986/11, art. 8, S.R. 1986/12, arts. 9(3)(4), 10(2)