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Paragraph 10 Duty of certain foreign operators

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In the case of any nuclear matter which is not excepted matter and which—

(a)

is in the course of carriage on behalf of a relevant operator; or

(b)

is in the course of carriage to such an operator's relevant installation with the agreement of that operator from a place outside the relevant territories; or

(c)

having been on such an operator's relevant installation or in the course of carriage on behalf of such an operator, has not sub-sequently been on any relevant installation or in the course of any relevant carriage or (except in the course of relevant carriage) within the territorial limits of a country which is not a relevant territory.

it shall be the duty of that operator to secure that no occurrence taking place wholly or partly within the territorial limits of the Virgin Islands causes injury to any person or damage to any property of any person other than that operator, being injury or damage arising out of or resulting from the radio-active properties, or a combination of those and any toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties, of that nuclear matter.