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Regulation 25 Carriers and temporary storage agentsI1

United Kingdom

(1)

Any person or undertaking engaged, in the United Kingdom, in transporting, or temporarily storing during transport, qualifying nuclear material must accept or hand over such material only against a duly signed and dated receipt.

(2)

The receipt referred to in paragraph (1) must state the names of the parties handing over and receiving the qualifying nuclear material and indicate the quantities carried as well as the category, form and composition of the material.

(3)

If so required for reasons of physical protection, the description of the qualifying nuclear material transferred may be replaced by a suitable identification of the consignment which is traceable to the operator.

(4)

The persons referred to in paragraph (1) F1... must retain records of the transaction and a copy of any receipt for a period of at least F230 years beginning with the day on which the record is made or the receipt is received.

F3(5)

The relevant operators must retain records of the transaction and a copy of any receipt for a period of at least 30 years beginning with the day on which the record is made or the receipt received.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in reg. 25(4) omitted (10.7.2026) by virtue of The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/835), regs. 1(2), 18(a)(i)

F2

Word in reg. 25(4) substituted (10.7.2026) by The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/835), regs. 1(2), 18(a)(ii)

F3

Reg. 25(5) inserted (10.7.2026) by The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/835), regs. 1(2), 18(b)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 25 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(2)