5 Rights of access etc. for Agency inspectors.U.K.

(1)This section has effect for securing that the Agency’s rights under the Additional Protocol—

(a)of access to locations of a description mentioned in Article 5, for purposes permitted by Article 4 or any other provision of the Additional Protocol in relation to locations of that description;

(b)of access to locations specified by the Agency for the purposes of Article 9, for the purpose of carrying out wide-area environmental sampling; and

(c)to carry out activities at those locations,

are exercisable in the United Kingdom by Agency inspectors.

(2)An Agency inspector may, at any location falling within subsection (1)—

(a)exercise such rights of access and entry as are required for the purposes of the Additional Protocol; and

(b)do anything which the Agency is entitled to do by virtue of Article 6 (if the location falls within subsection (1)(a)) or Article 9 (if it falls within subsection (1)(b));

but only in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the Additional Protocol and the Safeguards Agreement (including any arrangements for managed access made under Article 7, procedural arrangements for wide-area environmental sampling approved under Article 9, or subsidiary arrangements agreed under Article 13).

(3)For the purposes of subsection (2)—

(a)the reference to “other objective measures” in any paragraph of Article 6 shall be taken to refer only to measures specified by the Secretary of State in relation to that paragraph in an order made by statutory instrument; and

(b)the reference to procedural arrangements for wide-area environmental sampling in Article 9 shall be taken to refer only to arrangements specified by the Secretary of State in an order made by statutory instrument.