Commentary on provisions of Act Schedule: Minor and consequential amendments
The Schedule contains minor and consequential amendments to ensure that the United Kingdom’s new domestic civil nuclear safeguards regime will be able to operate properly.
	All of the amendments contained in the Schedule, apart from the last amendment, relate to the 2013 Act. They include:
allowing the ONR to make proposals to the Secretary of State about regulations under section 76A (paragraph 3);
ensuring that the ONR must make adequate arrangements for the enforcement of nuclear safeguards regulations (paragraph 4);
adding nuclear safeguards regulations to the definition of "relevant statutory provisions" in section 82(2) (also paragraph 4);
removing the duty of the ONR in relation to nuclear safeguards contained in section 93 because the effect of the duty is replicated by section 72(b) and section 78 (paragraph 6);
extending the duty of employers at work to help persons subject to obligations under nuclear safeguards regulations to comply with them (the amendments to sections 102 and 104 in paragraphs 7 and 8);
setting out the parliamentary scrutiny procedures that will govern regulation-making powers inserted by the Act (paragraph 9);
extending the review period for Part 3 of the 2013 Act from 5 years to 7 years - without this change the duty to review Part 3 would arise shortly before the United Kingdom withdrew from Euratom and before the changes made by the Act would come into force (paragraph 10);
extending the power for inspectors appointed by the ONR to issue improvement notices to non-compliance in relation to nuclear safeguards (paragraph 11);
updating the information sharing gateway that applies in relation to nuclear safeguards as a consequence of the changes made by the Act (paragraph 12); and
changing the reference in the 2000 Act from "colony" to "British overseas territory" (paragraph 13).