The Radioactive Substances (Records of Convictions) Regulations 1992

Made: 14th July 1992

Laid before Parliament: 21st July 1992

Coming into force: 11th August 1992

The Secretary of State for the Environment as respects England and Wales and the Secretary of State for Scotland as respects Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 13A(1)(d)[^f00001] and 15(1)[^f00002] of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960[^f00003] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Radioactive Substances (Records of Convictions) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 11th August 1992.

Prescribed records

2

The prescribed records for the purposes of section 13A(1)(d) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 shall be records specifying in relation to each conviction, the offence, the name of the offender, the date of conviction, the penalty imposed and the name of the Court.

Signed

Michael Howard — Secretary of State for the Environment — 13th July 1992

Hector Monro — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 14th July 1992

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Sections 11A and 20(a) of the Radioactive Substances Act 1960 provide for the appointment for the purposes of the Act of a chief inspector for England and Wales and also a chief inspector for Scotland. Section 13A(1) of the 1960 Act imposes a duty on the chief inspectors to keep and make available to the public copies of certain documents including such records of convictions under section 13 of the Act as may be prescribed in regulations. (Sections 11A, 20(a) and 13A(1) were inserted by the following provisions respectively of the Environmental Protection Act 1990: section 100(1), paragraphs 18(a) and 15 of Schedule 5).

These Regulations prescribe the records of convictions, copies of which must be kept and made available to the public by the chief inspectors. The records must, for each conviction, specify the offence, the name of the offender, the date of conviction, the penalty imposed and the name of the Court.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: Section 13A was inserted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 5 to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 c. 43.

[^f00002]: Relevant amendments were made by section 100(3) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

[^f00003]: 1960 c. 34.