Article 5 Agreements concerning functions related to the transport of radioactive materials to be treated as agreements entered into by the ONR

(1)

The agreements and authorisation specified in paragraph (3) continue to have effect on and after 1st April 2014 as if they had been duly entered into between—

(a)

the Secretary of State or relevant public authority; and

(b)

the ONR in exercise of its powers under section 90(1) of the 2013 Act.

(2)

In those agreements all references to the Health and Safety Executive, or the Executive, are, so far as necessary for the purposes, or in consequence, of paragraph (1) to be read as references to the ONR.

(3)

The specified agreements are—

(a)

the agreement under section 13(4) of the 1974 Act M1 and authorisation under paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to the Civil Aviation Act 1982 made on 26th October 2011 by the Civil Aviation Authority and the HSE M2;

(b)

the agreement made under section 13(4) of the 1974 Act on 28th October 2011 by the Secretary of State for Transport and the HSE M3;

(c)

the agreement made under section 13(4) of the 1974 Act and section 28(1) of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 on 25th January 2012 by the Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland) and the HSE M4.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

“The 1974 Act” has the meaning given in section 112(1) of the Energy Act 2013 (c.32).

M2

A copy of the agreement and authorisation is available here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/howwework/framework/aa/transport-hse-aa.pdf

M3

A copy of the agreement is available here: http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/howwework/framework/aa/secretary-of-state-hse-mou-2011.pdf

M4

A copy of the agreement is available here: http://www.hse.gov.uk/aboutus/howwework/framework/aa/onr-transport-agency-250112.pdf.