17 Jurisdiction, shared liability and foreign judgments
Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (1965 c 57) | Legislation

17  Jurisdiction, shared liability and foreign judgments

(1)     No court in the United Kingdom . . . shall have jurisdiction to determine any claim or question under this Act certified by [the appropriate authority] to be a claim or question which, under any relevant international agreement, falls to be determined by a court of some other relevant territory . . .; and any proceedings to enforce such a claim which are commenced in any court in the United Kingdom . . . shall be set aside.

(2)     . . .

(3)     Where by virtue of any one or more of the following, that is to say, sections 7, [7B,] 8, 9 and 10 of this Act and any relevant foreign law made for purposes corresponding to those of any of those sections, liability in respect of [the same injury, damage or significant impairment of the environment or the same grave and imminent threat of injury, damage or impairment] is incurred by two or more persons, then, for the purposes of any proceedings in the United Kingdom [relating to that matter], including proceedings for the enforcement of a judgment registered under the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 1933—

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