Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
c. 3741
Part I
(7) In this section—
- (a) “licence” means a licence under any of the relevant statutory provisions other than an agricultural licence or nuclear site licence;
- (b) “nuclear site licence” means a licence to use a site for the purpose of installing or operating a nuclear installation within the meaning of the following subsection.
(8) For the purposes of the preceding subsection “nuclear installation” means—
- (a) a nuclear reactor (other than such a reactor comprised in a means of transport, whether by land, water or air); or
- (b) any other installation of such class or description as may be prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph or section 1(1)(b) of the 1965 c. 57.Nuclear Installations Act 1965, being an installation designed or adapted for—
- (i) the production or use of atomic energy; or
- (ii) the carrying out of any process which is preparatory or ancillary to the production or use of atomic energy and which involves or is capable of causing the emission of ionising radiations; or
- (iii) the storage, processing or disposal of nuclear fuel or of bulk quantities of other radioactive matter, being matter which has been produced or irradiated in the course of the production or use of nuclear fuel;
and in this subsection—
- “atomic energy” has the meaning assigned by the 1946 c. 80.Atomic Energy Act 1946;
- “nuclear reactor means any plant (including any machinery, equipment or appliance, whether affixed to land or not) designed or adapted for the production of atomic energy by a fission process in which a controlled chain reaction can be maintained without an additional source of neutrons.
Default powers. 45.—(1) Where, in the case of a local authority who are an enforcing authority, the Commission is of the opinion that an investigation should be made as to whether that local authority have failed to perform any of their enforcement functions, the Commission may make a report to the Secretary of State.
(2) The Secretary of State may, after considering a report submitted to him under the preceding subsection, cause a local inquiry to be held; and the provisions of subsections (2) to (5) of section 250 of the 1972 c. 70.Local Government Act 1972 as to local inquiries shall, without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of that section, apply to a local inquiry so held