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The Nuclear Security (Secretary of State Security Directions) Regulations 2018
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ATOMIC ENERGY AND RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
NUCLEAR SECURITY
2024-05-16
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2022-04-28
These Regulations provide for the Secretary of State to give a direction (a “security direction”) in response to certain types of urgent security threat. The Secretary of State may direct those persons responsible for a civil nuclear site, nuclear or other radioactive material stored on part of a nuclear site, a nuclear construction site or other nuclear premises, the transport of nuclear material, or those persons holding sensitive nuclear information or equipment or software relating to uranium enrichment. The power to direct arises where the Secretary of State is satisfied that those premises or that material or information is at risk from an imminent threat of terrorism, espionage, sabotage or theft. It also arises where the Secretary of State is satisfied that there is an imminent threat of sensitive nuclear information or equipment or software relating to uranium enrichment being compromised or disclosed.
2001 c. 24; section 77 was amended by the Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), section 77 and Schedule 14, paragraph 10(1); by the Energy Act 2011 (c. 16) section 105 and by the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32), Schedule 12, paragraphs 31 and 32.