{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/2892",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-reactors-environmental-impact-assessment-for-decommissioning-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Definitions",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—\n“any particular person” includes any non-governmental organisation promoting environmental protection;\n“the consultation bodies” means—\n(a)the local planning authority;\n(b)the local highway authority;\n(c)any principal council for the area in which the site where the project is to be carried out, if not the local planning authority;\n(d) in England—\n(i)the Environment Agency; and\n(ii)Natural England;\n(e)in England, the Countryside Commission and the Nature Conservancy Council for England;\n(f)in Wales, the Natural Resources Body for Wales;\n(g)in Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency;\n(h) any other body with environmental or public health responsibilities or local or regional competencies with whom the ONR considers it appropriate to consult;\n“the Directive” means Directive 2011/92/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment, as amended by Directive 2014/52/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;\n“EEA State” means a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area;\n“environmental assessment” (except in the phrase “EU environmental assessment”) means an assessment carried out in accordance with an obligation under the law of any part of the United Kingdom of the effect of anything on the environment;\n“environmental impact assessment” means, in relation to a project—\n(a)the preparation of an environmental statement by the licensee under regulations 5 and 6;\n(b)the carrying out of any consultations under regulations 8 to 10A and 12;\n(c)the ONR’s consideration of the information about the likely significant effects of the project on the environment under regulation 10B(2);\n(d)the ONR reaching a conclusion about the likely significant effects of the project on the environment under regulation 10B(3); and\n(e)the ONR’s consideration of that conclusion under regulation 10C(1) when determining the application.\n“environmental statement” is to be read in accordance with regulation 5;\n“EU environmental assessment” means an assessment of the effect of anything on the environment carried out under assimilated law other than any law of any part of the United Kingdom that implemented the Directive;\n“the Habitats Directive” means Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora, as last amended by Council Directive 2013/17/EU;\n“the HSWA 1974” means the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974;\n...\n“licensee” means a person to whom a nuclear site licence has been granted under the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 whether or not that licence remains in force;\n“local planning authority” means, in England and Wales a local planning authority within the meaning of Part I of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 and in Scotland, a planning authority within the meaning of Part I of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997;\n“the ONR” means the Office for Nuclear Regulation;\n“project” means the carrying out of any dismantling or decommissioning work on any nuclear power station or nuclear reactor to which these Regulations apply by virtue of regulation 3(1), but it does not include—\n(a)the removal from a power station or reactor of fuel elements, neutron absorption cartridges or control rods carried out in accordance with normal operating procedures; or\n(b)the removal of waste from, or decontamination work on, a power station or reactor when such an activity is carried out as part of routine operations not intended to be part of final dismantling or decontamination of that station or reactor;\nand for the purposes of this definition dismantling or decommissioning of a nuclear power station or nuclear reactor shall not be treated as having commenced unless plant or equipment is disabled or removed for the purpose of permanently preventing the continued operation of that station or reactor.\n“the Wild Birds Directive” means Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the conservation of wild birds, as amended by Council Directive 2013/17/EU;\n(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these Regulations to—\n(a) a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule in these Regulations so numbered; and\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph so numbered in the regulation or Schedule in which the reference appears.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (6.4.2006) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/657), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(a) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 112(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(b) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 3(3) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 3(2) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (6.8.2018) by The Nuclear Reactors (Environmental Impact Assessment for Decommissioning) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/834), regs. 1(2), 3(5) (with reg. 22)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Ionising Radiation (Environmental and Public Protection) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/24), regs. 1(1), 2(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 13 para. 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) omitted (1.4.2014) by virtue of The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 96(a) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (1.4.2014) by The Energy Act 2013 (Office for Nuclear Regulation) (Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/469), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 96(b) (with Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 19.11.1999, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Cm. 2073. The Agreement was adjusted by a protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1965 c. 57; as amended by S.I. 1974/2056 and S.I. 1990/1918."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1997 c. 8."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}