Commentary on Sections Part 8: Civil Nuclear Security Section 77 Regulation of security of civil nuclear industry
157.Subsection (1) contains a power to make regulations to ensure security in the civil nuclear industry. The main areas covered by the regulations are the security of nuclear sites, nuclear material in course of transport, and sensitive information relating to the security of nuclear sites, nuclear material and sensitive nuclear technology, in particular uranium enrichment technology.
158.Subsection (2) provides that the regulations may, for the purposes of security regulation, include specified measures which are set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. These include the enforcement provisions, since the new security regulations have borrowed the existing enforcement provisions in that Act. Subsection (2) also provides that the new regulations may create criminal offences.