{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-gibraltar-order-1970/schedule/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-gibraltar-order-1970/schedule/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1970/1116",
  "legislation_title": "The Nuclear Installations (Gibraltar) Order 1970",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-installations-gibraltar-order-1970",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Time for bringing claims under ss. 10 and 11",
  "text": "(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section but notwithstanding anything in any other enactment, a claim by virtue of section 10 or 11 of this Act may be made at any time before, but shall not be entertained if made at any time after, the expiration of ten years from the relevant date, that is to say, the date of the occurrence which gave rise to the claim or, where that occurrence was a continuing one, the date of the last event in the course of that occurrence to which the claim relates.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, a claim in respect of injury or damage caused by an occurrence involving nuclear matter stolen from, or lost, jettisoned or abandoned by, the person whose breach of a duty imposed by section 10 of this Act gave rise to the claim shall not be entertained if the occurrence takes place after the expiration of the period of twenty years beginning with the day when the nuclear matter in question was so stolen, lost, jettisoned or abandoned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1116/schedule/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:56:46.315084+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."
}