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Revised Statute from The UK Statute Law Database

Atomic Energy Act 1946 (c.80)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Atomic Energy Act 1946

1946 CHAPTER 80 9_and_10_Geo_6

Contents

Go to Preamble

  1. General Functions of Minister of Supply

    1. 1. General duty of Minister of Supply

    2. 2. General powers of Minister

    3. 3.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Powers to obtain information and to inspect

    1. 4. Power to obtain information of materials, plant and processes

    2. 5. Power of entry and inspection

  3. Power to search for and work minerals and acquire property

    1. 6. Power to do work for purpose of discovering minerals

    2. 7. Compulsory acquisition of rights to work minerals

    3. 8. Compulsory acquisition of prescribed substances, stocks of minerals and plant

    4. 9. Compulsory acquisition of rights under contract

  4. Control of production and use of atomic energy and publication of information

    1. 10. Control of production and use of atomic energy

    2. 11. Restriction on disclosure of information relating to plant

  5. Special provisions as to inventions

    1. 12. Special provisions as to inventions

  6. General Provisions

    1. 13. Disclosure of information obtained under Act

    2. 14. Offences and penalties

    3. 15. Provisions as to orders

    4. 16. Expenses

    5. 17. Service of notices

    6. 18. Definitions

    7. 19. Application to Scotland

    8. 20. Application to Northern Ireland

    9. 21. Short title

  7. FIRST SCHEDULE

    Compensation for Work done in Searching for Minerals

  8. SECOND SCHEDULE

    Compulsory Acquisition of Certain Property

An Act to provide for the development of atomic energy and the control of such development, and for purposes connected therewith.

[6th November 1946]

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Functions of Minister of Supply under this Act now exercisable by Secretary of State: S.I. 1953/1673 (1953 I, p. 1222), 1957/561 (1957 I, p. 1435), 1959/1826 (1959 I, p. 1791), 1964/490, 1964/2048, 1970/1537

Extent Information

E1For the extent of this act in relation to Northern Ireland see s. 20.

General Functions of Minister of Supply

1 General duty of Minister of Supply

It shall be the general duty of the Minister of Supply (in this Act referred to as “the Minister”) to promote and control the development of atomic energy.

Annotations:

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 1. amended by Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 (c. 32), s. 3(1)

2 General powers of Minister

(1). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

(2)[F2Subsections (1) and (2) of section two of the M1Supply Powers Act 1975] and Articles 5 and 6 of the Ministry of Supply (Transfer of Powers) (No. 1) Order, 1939, shall apply in relation to any functions of the Minister under this Act or any property vested in or under the control of the Minister by virtue of this Act.

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 2(1) repealed with savings by Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 (c. 32), s. 2(3)

F2Words substituted by Supply Powers Act 1975 (c. 9), s. 8(2)

Marginal Citations

M11975 c. 9.

3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1S. 3 repealed by Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 (c. 32), s. 2(3)

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