Section 1 The Safeguards Agreement.

(1)

The provisions of sections 2 and 3 below shall have effect for the purpose of enabling effect to be given in the United Kingdom to the Agreement F1made on 7th June 2018 at Vienna between the United Kingdom and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the application of Safeguards in the United Kingdom in connection with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

(2)

F2... In the following provisions of this Act—

(a)

the Agreement F3... is referred to as “the Safeguards Agreement”; and

(b)

any reference to a numbered article is a reference to the article of the Safeguards Agreement which bears that number.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in s. 1(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/196), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(a) (with Sch. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in s. 1(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/196), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(b) (with Sch. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3: Words in s. 1(2)(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/196), reg. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(c) (with Sch. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)