Energy Act 2004

5Supplemental provisions of designating directions

(1)A direction comes into force at the time which is specified in the direction or determined in accordance with provision contained in it.

(2)A direction giving the NDA responsibilities in relation to an installation, site or facility which—

(a)is a nuclear installation, a principal nuclear site or a facility situated in or on a principal nuclear site, but

(b)is not one in relation to which the NDA is to have a financial responsibility under section 21,

may require the person with control of the installation, site or facility to make payments to the Secretary of State.

(3)A direction may also impose requirements with respect to the charges which (subject to section 21) are to be imposed by the NDA in connection with the discharge of responsibilities given to the NDA by the direction.

(4)Subject to subsections (5) and (6), a direction may be modified or revoked by a subsequent direction.

(5)A direction must not modify or revoke a direction relating to the responsibility of the NDA in relation to an installation, site or facility unless the person with control of the installation, site or facility is, at the time when the modification or revocation comes into force—

(a)a Crown appointee;

(b)the UKAEA;

(c)a publicly owned company;

(d)the NDA itself; or

(e)a person who has consented to the modification or revocation.

(6)A direction in so far as it gives the NDA responsibility—

(a)for the decommissioning of an installation, or

(b)for the cleaning-up of a principal nuclear site,

may be revoked only if the condition set out in subsection (7) is satisfied.

(7)The condition is—

(a)in the case of a direction given by the Secretary of State, that he is satisfied that the NDA has discharged all its responsibilities in relation to the decommissioning or cleaning-up of the installation or site; and

(b)in the case of a direction given jointly by the Secretary of State and the Scottish Ministers, that he and those Ministers are so satisfied.

(8)The Secretary of State must pay sums received by him by virtue of subsection (2) into the Consolidated Fund.

(9)In this section “direction” means a direction under section 3.