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Statutory Instruments
ATOMIC ENERGY AND RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
Made
24th March 1994
Coming into force
1st April 1994
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (as respects England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and the Secretary of State for Scotland (as respects Scotland), in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 16(1A) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Nuclear Installations (Increase of Operators' Limits of Liability) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.
2. In section 16(1) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965(2) (limitation of operator's liability in respect of any occurrence), for the words "£20 million" and "£5 million" there shall be substituted the words "£140 million" and "£10 million" respectively.
Tim Eggar
Minister for Energy,
Department of Trade and Industry
17th March 1994
Allan Stewart
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, The Scottish Office
17th March 1994
We approve,
Tim Wood
Irvine Patnick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury
24th March 1994
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the maximum amount payable as compensation, by a person liable by virtue of a breach of a duty imposed on him by section 7, 8 or 9 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965, in respect of any one occurrence constituting such a breach. That amount is increased from £20 million to £140 million or, in the case of licencees of sites prescribed under the Nuclear Installations (Prescribed Sites) Regulations 1983 (S.I. 1983/919), from £5 million to £10 million.
1965 c. 57; section 16(1A) was inserted by section 27(2) of the Energy Act 1983 (c. 25).
Section 16(1) was amended by section 27(1) of the Energy Act 1983.
