The Radioactive Contaminated Land Regulations (Northern Ireland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007
These Regulations amend the Radioactive Contaminated Land Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. (NI) 2006 No 345) (“the 2006 Regulations”), extending their application to all radioactivity including situations where civil liability for damage to land is regulated, for the purposes of the Paris Convention on third party liability in the field of nuclear energy, by the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (c. 57) or foreign law (in other words, situations where the radiation arises from a nuclear occurrence) (paragraphs (2) to (4) of regulation 3). They also exclude from the regime situations where the Radiation (Emergency Preparedness and Public Information) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (S.R. (NI) 2001 No 436) apply in so far as any action that could have been required be taken under these Regulations, if they applied, would have already been required to be taken under those Regulations (regulation 3(5)).