304 Excluded disposal sites

304  Excluded disposal sites

(1)     The Nuclear Installations Act 1965 is amended as follows.

(2)     In section 7B (duties in respect of relevant disposal sites)—

(a)     after subsection (2A) (inserted by section 303 of this Act) insert—

“(2B)     The operator of a site that would be a relevant disposal site but for subsection (7A) is to be treated for the purposes of subsection (2)(a)(ii) as becoming the operator of the site on the date when the site ceases to be an excluded disposal site.”;

(b)     after subsection (3)(d) insert—

“(e)     the date when the Secretary of State gives notice under section 7C(1)(b) that the site is an excluded disposal site.”;

(c)     after subsection (3) insert—

“(3A)     Where a site to which subsection (2B) applies was a relevant disposal site before it became an excluded disposal site, subsection (2) has effect in respect of—

(a)     the period beginning by virtue of subsection (2)(a), and

(b)     any further period beginning by virtue of subsection (2B).”;

(d)     in subsection (4), for “and (7)” substitute “, (7) and (7A)”;

(e)     after subsection (7) insert—

“(7A)     A site is not a relevant disposal site if it is an excluded disposal site.”;

(f)

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