{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-safeguards-act-2000/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-safeguards-act-2000/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/5",
  "legislation_title": "Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/nuclear-safeguards-act-2000",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Minor and consequential amendments.",
  "text": "(1) In section 6(3) of the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 (persons exempted from prohibition on entry to certain premises) in paragraph (bb), at the end there is inserted “ or under Article 11 of the Additional Protocol (within the meaning of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000) ”.\n(2) In paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (persons exempted from prohibition on entry to certain sites) in paragraph (bb), at the end there is inserted “ or under Article 11 of the Additional Protocol (within the meaning of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000) ”.\n(3) In section 2 of the Nuclear Safeguards and Electricity (Finance) Act 1978 (rights of Agency inspectors)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after “article 85” there is inserted “ of the Safeguards Agreement or Article 11 of the Additional Protocol (within the meaning of the Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000) ”;\n(b) in subsection (4), for the words from “shall be liable” to the end there is substituted\n“shall be guilty of an offence.\n(4A) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) above shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; and\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine.”; and\n(c) after subsection (7), there is inserted—\n“(8) If in any proceedings any question arises whether a person at any time when purporting to exercise powers under this section was or was not a person designated as mentioned in subsection (1) above, a certificate issued by or under the authority of the Secretary of State stating any fact relevant to that question shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1954 c. 32."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1965 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1978 c. 25."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in force at 1.5.2004 by S.I. 2004/1242, arts. 2, 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/5/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:28.551432+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."
}