These Regulations require persons engaged in specific nuclear and nuclear-related activities to give certain details about themselves and those activities to the Secretary of State. The United Kingdom is required to provide certain information in relation to nuclear and nuclear-related activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency (“IAEA”) pursuant to the Additional Protocol referred to in section 1(1) of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000. These Regulations enable the Secretary of State to know who may have such information.

Regulations 3 and 4 provide that a person who has carried out any of the activities referred to in the respective paragraphs of those regulations, supplemented by the Schedule, must notify the Secretary of State. The activities referred to are those specified in the Additional Protocol about which information is required to be given by the Secretary of State to the IAEA, but which may be carried on without the Secretary of State knowing other than as a result of compliance with these Regulations. The relevant provisions from the Additional Protocol are reproduced in Part II of the Schedule.

Regulation 5 negates the obligation to notify the Secretary of State where the Secretary of State already has the details which that person would otherwise have to give under the Regulations, and serves on that person a written notice setting out those details. Such a person must still notify the Secretary of State if the details set out in the notice are incomplete or wrong, or if they change.

Regulation 6 describes what details a person has to give when notifying the Secretary of State under regulation 3 or 4.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.