9 General duties when carrying out functions
Energy Act 2004 (2004 c 20) | Legislation

General duties and powers of NDA

9  General duties when carrying out functions

(1)     It shall be the duty of the NDA, in carrying out its functions, to have particular regard to each of the following—

(a)     relevant Government policy;

(b)     the need to safeguard the environment;

(c)     the need to protect persons from risks to their health and safety from activities involving the use, treatment, storage, transportation or disposal of hazardous material; and

(d)     the need to preserve nuclear security.

(2)     It shall also be the duty of the NDA, in carrying out its functions—

(a)     to promote, and to ensure, the maintenance and development in the United Kingdom of a skilled workforce able to undertake the work of decommissioning nuclear installations and of cleaning up nuclear sites;

(b)     to promote effective competition for contracts to provide it with the services it must secure in order to discharge its responsibilities;

(c)     to secure the adoption of what it considers to be good practice by the persons with control of designated installations, designated sites and designated facilities; and

(d)     subject to subsection (1) and

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