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1U.K.The Authority shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and power to hold land without licence in mortmain.
2U.K.The Authority may act notwithstanding a vacancy among their members.
3U.K.The quorum of the Authority shall be three or such number, not being less than three, as the Authority may from time to time determine.
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Textual Amendments
F1Para. 4 repealed (5.10.2004) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 23 Pt. 1; S.I. 2004/2575, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
5(1)A member of the Authority who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Authority shall, as soon as possible after the relevant circumstances have come to his knowledge, disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Authority.U.K.
(2)Any disclosure made under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall be recorded in the minutes of the Authority and the member—
(a)shall not take part after the disclosure in any deliberation or decision of the Authority with respect to that contract; and
(b)shall be disregarded for the purpose of constituting a quorum of the Authority for any such deliberation or decision.
6U.K.Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule the Authority may regulate their own procedure.
7(1)The Authority shall appoint a secretary and may appoint such other officers and take into their employment such other persons as they may determine.U.K.
(2)The Authority shall—
(a)pay to their officers and other persons employed by them such remuneration as the Authority may determine; and
(b)as regards any officers or persons employed in whose case it may be determined by the Authority with the approval of the Lord President of the Council so to do, pay to or in respect of them such pensions, or provide and maintain for them such pension schemes (whether contributory or not), as may be so determined.
(3)Where any officer of or person employed by the Authority, being a participant in any pension scheme applicable to his office or employment, becomes a member of the Authority, he may be treated for the purposes of the pension scheme as if his service as a member of the Authority were service as a officer of or person employed by the Authority, and his rights under the scheme shall not be affected by any provision of this Act which requires that the pensions or payments towards the provision of pensions to be paid or made in the case of members of the Authority shall be determined by the Lord President of the Council with the approval of the Treasury.
(4)Except with the consent of the Lord President of the Council, the Authority shall not terminate on security grounds the employment of any officer of, or person employed by, the Authority.
In this sub-paragraph the expression “security grounds” means grounds which are grounds for dismissal from the civil service of Her Majesty, in accordance with any arrangements for the time being in force relating to dismissals from that service for reasons of national security.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Para. 7(2) extended by Radiological Protection Act 1970 (c. 46), s. 2(3), Sch. 1 para. 13(3); Functions of Treasury under para. 7(3) now again exercisable by Treasury: S.I. 1968/1656 and 1981/1670, art. 2(1)(c)
C2Para. 7(2)(b) modified (27.7.2004) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 1 para. 6; S.I. 2004/1973, art. 2, Sch.
C3Para. 7(2)(b) extended (E.W.S.) (1.4.2005) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 10 para. 7(1); S.I. 2005/877, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
8U.K.The application of the seal of the Authority shall be authenticated by the signatures of the chairman or some other member of the Authority authorised by the Authority to authenticate the application of the seal thereof, and of the secretary of the Authority or some person authorised by the Authority to act in his stead in that behalf.
9U.K.Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Authority and to be sealed as aforesaid or to be signed on behalf of the Authority shall be received in evidence and shall be deemed to be such an instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown.
Section 2.
1U.K.The property held immediately before the appointed day by the Lord President of the Council for the purposes of his activities under subsection (1) of section two of the M1Atomic Energy Act 1946 and subsection (1) of section one of the M2Radioactive Substances Act 1948 and the rights and liabilities enjoyed by him or incumbent on him immediately before the appointed day in connection with those activities are hereby transferred as from the appointed day to the Authority:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any property, rights or liabilities acquired or incurred under any pension scheme.
2U.K.Any instrument shall, so far as may be necessary for or in consequence of the transfer effected by paragraph 1 of this Schedule, have effect as if references to, or which are to be construed as references to, the Lord President of the Council or any department or organisation maintained by him for the purposes of his functions under the M3Atomic Energy Act 1946 and the M4Radioactive Substances Act 1948 were or, as the case may require, included references to the Authority and their organisation.
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Textual Amendments
F2Sch. SECOND para. 3 repealed (22.7.2004) by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2004 (c. 14), Sch. 1 Pt. 16 Group 1
4U.K.A certificate issued by the Lord President of the Council that any property vested in the Lord President of the Council immediately before the appointed day was or was not transferred to the Authority by paragraph 1 of this Schedule shall be conclusive evidence that that property was or was not so transferred.
Sections 6, 9.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C4The text of Sch. 3 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not wholly reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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Sections ten and eleven shall not apply to anything done by or to the Authority.
In section twelve, in subsection (2), after the word “inspect” there shall be inserted the words “or authorise the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to inspect”, and in subsection (7), after the words “the Minister” there shall be inserted the words “or the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority”.
In section thirteen, after the words “the Minister” there shall be inserted the words “or the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority”.
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Textual Amendments
F3Words in Third Sch. omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(r), Sch. 23 para. 15(3)(a)
F4Words in Third Sch. omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(r), Sch. 23 para. 15(3)(b)
F5Words in Third Sch. omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(r), Sch. 23 para. 15(3)(c)
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Textual Amendments
F6Words repealed by Official Secrets Act 1989 (c. 6, SIF 39:2), s. 16(4), Sch. 2
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Textual Amendments
F7Words repealed (1.4.2005) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 23 Pt. 1; S.I. 2005/877, art. 2(1), Sch. 1
In section ninety-seven of the M5Explosives Act 1875 references to a department of the Government, except the second such reference in paragraph (5) of that section, shall be construed as including references to the Authority.
For the purposes of Part II of the M6Military Lands Act 1892 (as applied by the Ministry of Supply (Transfer of Powers) (No. 1) Order 1939 subsection (2) of section two of the M7Atomic Energy Act 1946 and Article 3 of the Transfer of Functions (Atomic Energy and Radioactive Substances) Order 1953)—
(a)any land vested in or under the management of the Authority shall be deemed to be land vested in or under the management of the Lord President of the Council;
(b)any right of the Authority to use land vested in another person shall be deemed to be a right of the Lord President of the Council; and
(c)the purposes of the Authority shall be deemed to be purposes of a department or organisation maintained by the Lord President of the Council for the purposes of the functions transferred to him under the Transfer of Functions (Atomic Energy and Radioactive Substances) Order 1953.
For the purposes of the Factories Acts 1937 and 1948 any premises belonging to or in the occupation of the Authority and any building operations or works of engineering construction undertaken by or on behalf of the Authority shall be deemed to be premises belonging to or in the occupation of the Crown or, as the case may be, to be operations or works undertaken by or on behalf of the Crown.
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In subsection (2) of section forty-six of the M8Patents Act 1949 after the words “Government department” there shall be inserted the words “or the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority”.
Textual Amendments
F8Words repealed by Industrial Expansion Act 1968 (c. 32), Sch. 4
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