Citation, commencement, revocation and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Nuclear Industries Security Regulations 2003.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 22nd March 2003, except that Part 3 and the provisions of Parts 1 and 5 so far as they apply for the purposes of Part 3 come into force on 22nd September 2003.
(3) The Nuclear Generating Stations (Security) Regulations 1996(1) are hereby revoked.
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), these Regulations extend to Northern Ireland.
(5) Paragraph (3) of this regulation and regulations 3(1) and (2) and 23 do not extend to Northern Ireland (but nothing in this paragraph prevents “nuclear material” in these Regulations from having the same meaning in all parts of the United Kingdom (see regulation 2(1)).
(6) Regulation 24 extends only to Northern Ireland.