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The Energy Act 2004 (Designation of Publicly Owned Companies) Order 2007

S.I. 2007/3479 · Made 9 December 2007

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Made 9th December 2007

Laid before Parliament 10th December 2007

Coming into force 31st December 2007

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 39(3) and (4) of the Energy Act 2004f1, makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2004 c.20.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Energy Act 2004 (Designation of Publicly Owned Companies) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 31st December 2007.

2

British Nuclear Fuels plc (registered number 5027024) is a company designated for the purposes of section 39(3) of the Energy Act 2004.

Signature

Malcolm Wicks

Minister of State for Energy,

Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform

9th December 2007

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates British Nuclear Fuels plc as a company falling within section 39(3) of the Energy Act 2004f1.

For the purposes of section 39(4) of that Act, British Nuclear Fuels plc is a publicly owned company to which property, rights or liabilities of BNFL were transferred at a time when both British Nuclear Fuels plc and BNFL were publicly owned. By virtue of section 39(2) of that Act the securities, property, rights and liabilities of such a company may be transferred to a publicly owned company, the NDA or a consenting person by a scheme under section 38 of that Act.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been carried out as this Order will have no impact on business or the voluntary sector.