{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-act-1965/section-17C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-act-1965/section-17C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1965/57",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Installations Act 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-act-1965",
  "path": "section/17C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17C",
  "heading": "Right of a foreign government to intervene",
  "text": "(1) If the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied as regards proceedings brought in any part of the United Kingdom, the government of a country that is a special relevant territory is entitled, on giving notice to the court, to be joined as a party to those proceedings.\n(2) The conditions are that—\n(a) a breach of a duty imposed on a relevant foreign operator by section 10 is alleged in the proceedings, and\n(b) the site by reference to which the condition in section 10(4) is alleged to be satisfied is a relevant site of the relevant foreign operator within the territorial limits of the special relevant territory or any overseas territory of that territory that is itself a special relevant territory.\n(3) Notice under subsection (1) may be given at any time during the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17C inserted (4.5.2016 coming into force in accordance with art. 1(2)-(5)) by The Nuclear Installations (Liability for Damage) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/562), arts. 1(2), 27(2) (with art. 40)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/57/section/17C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:57:27.265239+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."
}