# Atomic Energy Authority Act 1971, Section 21: Savings and transitional provisions.


(1) Nothing in section 1 of this Act shall affect the office of special constable held by any person who, immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of that section, is a special constable by virtue of section 3 of the Special Constables Act 1923 as applied by Schedule 3 to the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954, or shall affect any duty, power or privilege of any such person in his capacity as such a special constable in relation to any premises transferred by virtue of the said section 1.
(2) Where immediately before the day which is the appointed day for the purposes of section 1 of this Act any place which is transferred to the Nuclear Fuels Company by virtue of that section is a prohibited place for the purposes of the Official Secrets Act 1911, having been declared to be such a prohibited place by an order made under section 3(c) of that Act, then, while that order remains in force,—
(a) that place shall continue to be a prohibited place for the purposes of that Act so long as it continues to belong to, or to be used for the purposes of, that company, as if it belonged to, or were used for the purposes of, Her Majesty; and
(b) subparagraph (2) of paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965, as set out in the Schedule to this Act, shall have effect in relation to any such place as if any reference therein to the specified body corporate were a reference to that company and as if the order in question had been made under the said section 3(c) as extended by subparagraph (1) of that paragraph.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/11/section/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/atomic-energy-authority-act-1971/section-21
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