Part 5 Other Enactments

Part 5 Other Enactments

Explosives Act 1875 (c 17)

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The Explosives Act 1875 is amended as follows.

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In section 61 (keeping and carriage of samples by an inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive under section 19 of the 1974 Act), at the end insert the following paragraphs—

“The reference to an inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive under section 19 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (“the 1974 Act”) is to be read, in relation to a relevant nuclear site, as a reference to an inspector appointed by the Office for Nuclear Regulation under that section.

For this purpose a relevant nuclear site is one in relation to which the Office for Nuclear Regulation has responsibility for the enforcement of any of the relevant statutory provisions (within the meaning of Part 1 of the 1974 Act) by virtue of section 18(1A) or (2) of the 1974 Act.”

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In section 74 (seizure and detention of explosives liable to forfeiture), after subsection (6) insert the following paragraphs—

“In this section, any reference to an inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive under

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