{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004-designation-of-publicly-owned-companies-order-2007/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004-designation-of-publicly-owned-companies-order-2007/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3479",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Act 2004 (Designation of Publicly Owned Companies) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2004-designation-of-publicly-owned-companies-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order designates British Nuclear Fuels plc as a company falling within section 39(3) of the Energy Act 2004.\nFor 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.\nNo Regulatory Impact Assessment has been carried out as this Order will have no impact on business or the voluntary sector.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/3479/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:39:38.003321+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}