Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018

Nuclear Safeguards Act 2018
	Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision about nuclear safeguards; and for connected purposes.
Citation	2018 c. 15
Introduced by	Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy; ; Lord Henley, for and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Territorial extent	United Kingdom; (England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland); ; Indirectly also affects (and the right to make Orders-in-Council in order to extend Regulations in respect of); (not part of the territorial extent):; The Isle of Man; [The Bailiwick of] Jersey; The Bailiwick of Guernsey; Gibraltar and other British Overseas Territories
Dates
Royal assent	26 June 2018
Commencement	26 June 2018; (partly in force)
Other legislation
Relates to	European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018; Nuclear Safeguards Act 2000; Nuclear Safeguards and Electricity (Finance) Act 1978
Status: Current legislation
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Nuclear Safegards Act 2018 (c. 15) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that makes legal provision to enable the continuation of nuclear safeguards after the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Atomic Energy Community as part the implementation of the country's exit from the European Union (Brexit). The Act received Royal Assent on 26 June 2018, coincidently on the same day as the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 to which it contains several references.

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