The Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1994

Made: 28th March 1994

Coming into force: 1st April 1994

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 3(c) of the Official Secrets Act 1911[^f00001], I hereby make the following Order:

1

This Order may be cited as the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

2

The Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1975[^f00002]and the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) (Amendment) Order 1993[^f00003]are hereby revoked.

3

Each of the places specified—

• (a) in Part I of the Schedule to this Order, being a site to which a permit applies within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965[^f00004]; or

• (b) in Part II of the Schedule to this Order, being a site belonging to or used for the purposes of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority,

is, on the ground that information with respect thereto, or damage thereto, would be useful to an enemy, hereby declared to be a prohibited place for the purposes of section 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911.

SCHEDULE — PROHIBITED PLACES

PART I

• The British Nuclear Fuels plc site at Sellafield, Seascale, Cumbria, CA20 1PG.

• The British Nuclear Fuels plc site at Capenhurst, near Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6ER.

• The Urenco (Capenhurst) Limited site at Capenhurst, near Chester, Cheshire, CH1 6ER.

PART II

• The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site at Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0RA.

• The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site at Windscale, Seascale, Cumbria,CA20 1PF.

Signed

Michael Howard — One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State — 28th March 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act 1911, as amended, defines the expression “prohibited place” for the purposes of that Act, and paragraph (c) of that section enables certain places not otherwise within the definition to be declared prohibited places by Order.

Accordingly, this Order declares the places specified in the Schedule to be prohibited places for the purposes of the 1911 Act. The Order also revokes the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) Order 1975 and the Official Secrets (Prohibited Places) (Amendment) Order 1993, which it replaces.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1911 c. 28; section 3(c) was amended by Schedule 1 to the Official Secrets Act 1920 (c. 75), extended bysection 6(3) of the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954 (c. 32) and by paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (c. 57) as that sub-paragraph has effect by virtue of the Nuclear Installations (Applications of Security Provisions) Order 1971 (S.I. 1971/569) and the Nuclear Installations (Application of Security Provisions) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/687).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1975/182.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1993/863.

[^f00004]: 1965 c. 57; a new Schedule 1 was inserted, and the original Schedule to the 1965 Act designated Schedule 2, by section 17(6) of, and the Schedule to, the Atomic Energy Authority Act 1971 (c. 11).