{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-act-1993/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-act-1993/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/12",
  "legislation_title": "Radioactive Substances Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/radioactive-substances-act-1993",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State to restrict knowledge of applications etc.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may direct the appropriate Agency that in his opinion, on grounds of national security, it is necessary that knowledge of such information as may be specified or described in the directions, being information contained in or relating to—\n(a) any particular application for registration under section 7 or 10 or applications of any description specified in the directions, or\n(b) any particular registration or registrations of any description so specified,\nshould be restricted.\n(2) The Secretary of State . . . may direct the appropriate Agency that in his . . . opinion, on grounds of national security, it is necessary that knowledge of such information as may be specified or described in the directions, being information contained in or relating to—\n(a) any particular application for authorisation under section 13 or 14 or for the transfer (in whole or in part) or variation of an authorisation or applications of any description specified in the directions, or\n(b) any particular authorisation under either of those sections or authorisations of any description so specified,\nshould be restricted.\n(3) Where it appears to the appropriate Agency that an application, registration or authorisation is the subject of any directions under this section, the appropriate Agency shall not send a copy of so much of the application or the certificate of registration or authorisation or notice of variation as contains the information specified or described in the directions—\n(a) to any local authority under any provision of section 7 or 10, or\n(b) to any public or local authority under any provision of section 16 16A or 17 .\n(3A) No direction under this section shall affect—\n(a) any power or duty of the Agency to which it is given to consult the Food Standards Agency; or\n(b) the information which is to be sent by that Agency to the Food Standards Agency.\n(3B) In the application of this section to Scotland, the references in subsection (3A) to the Food Standards Agency are to be read as references to Food Standards Scotland.\n(4) In the application of this section to Northern Ireland—\n(a) references to the Secretary of State shall have effect as references to the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland, and\n(b) in subsection (2), the reference to England shall have effect as a reference to Northern Ireland and the reference to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall have effect as a reference to the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 25 repealed (E.W.) (6.4.2010) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 26 para. 11(2)(y), Sch. 28 (with reg. 1(2), Sch. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 25 substituted (E.W.S.) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 200 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(1) inserted (E.W.S.) (28.7.1995) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 213(1) (with ss.7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1995/1983, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) repealed (E.W.S.) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1)(3), Sch. 22 para. 213(2)(a), Sch. 24 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) inserted (E.W.S.) (28.7.1995) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 213(2)(b) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1995/1983, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2)(a) inserted (27.7.2004) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 15 para. 9(1); S.I. 2004/1973, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(3) inserted (E.W.S.) (28.7.1995) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 213(3) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1995/1983, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(3) substituted (27.7.2004) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 15 para. 9(2)(a); S.I. 2004/1973, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(3)(b) inserted (27.7.2004) by Energy Act 2004 (c. 20), s. 198(2), Sch. 15 para. 9(2)(b); S.I. 2004/1973, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 25(3A) inserted (E.W.S.) (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 25, s. 120(1), Sch. 22 para. 213(4) (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in S. 25(3A) substituted (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 40(1)(2), Sch. 5 para. 43(1)(5)(a) (with ss. 38, 40(2)); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "S. 25(3B) inserted (S.) (1.4.2015) by Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 1), s. 63(2), sch. para. 5(4) (with s. 62); S.S.I. 2015/99, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "S. 25(5) repealed (1.4.2000) by 1999 c. 28, s. 40(1)(2)(4), Sch. 5 para. 43(5), Sch. 6 (with ss. 38, 40(2)); S.I. 2000/1066, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 25: functions exercisable by the Secretary of State now exercisable (1.7.1999) by National Assembly for Wales concurrently with the Secretary of State by S.I. 1999/672, arts. 1(2), 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 25: functions of a Minister of the Crown, so far as they are exercisable by him in or as regards Scotland, now exercisable (1.7.1999) by the Scottish Ministers concurrently with the Minister concerned and only after consultation with the Secretary of State by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1, 3, Sch. 2 (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales and Scotland only; a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/12/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:14.428372+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."
}