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| Service of notices. |
10. - (1) Any notice under this Act may be served on a person by delivering it to him, by leaving it at his proper address or by sending it by post to him at that address.
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(2) Any such notice may be served-
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(a) in the case of a body corporate, on the secretary or clerk of that body; |
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(b) in the case of a partnership, on any partner or a person having control or management of the partnership business; and |
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(c) in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), on any member of its governing body. |
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(3) For the purposes of this section and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 (service of documents) in its application to this section, the proper address of any person is-
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(a) in the case of a body corporate, its secretary or clerk, the address of its registered or principal office in the United Kingdom; |
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(b) in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership) or a member of its governing body, the address of its principal office in the United Kingdom; and |
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(c) in any other case, his usual or last-known address (whether of his residence or of a place where he carries on business or is employed). |
| Minor and consequential amendments. |
11. - (1) In section 6(3) of the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 (persons exempted from prohibition on entry to certain premises) in paragraph (bb), at the end there is inserted "or under Article 11 of the Additional Protocol (within the meaning of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000)".
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(2) In paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (persons exempted from prohibition on entry to certain sites) in paragraph (bb), at the end there is inserted "or under Article 11 of the Additional Protocol (within the meaning of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000)".
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(3) In section 2 of the Nuclear Safeguards and Electricity (Finance) Act 1978 (rights of Agency inspectors)-
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(a) in subsection (1), after "article 85" there is inserted "of the Safeguards Agreement or Article 11 of the Additional Protocol (within the meaning of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000)"; |
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(b) in subsection (4), for the words from "shall be liable" to the end there is substituted "shall be guilty of an offence. |
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(4A) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) above shall be liable-
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(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and |
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(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine."; and |
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(c) after subsection (7), there is inserted- |
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"(8) If in any proceedings any question arises whether a person at any time when purporting to exercise powers under
this section was or was not a person designated as mentioned in subsection (1) above, a certificate issued by or under the authority of the Secretary of State stating any fact relevant to that question shall be conclusive evidence of that fact." |
| Short title etc. |
12. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000.
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(2) This Act (except for this section) shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.
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(3) Nothing in this Act affects the exercise of powers exercisable under any other enactment.
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(4) Her Majesty may by Order in Council direct that any of the provisions of this Act or of the Nuclear Safeguards and Electricity (Finance) Act 1978 shall extend, with such modifications as appear to Her Majesty to be appropriate, to any of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any colony.
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(5) This Act extends to Northern Ireland.
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