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Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983

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Article 7 of the Convention also required that it should be an offence to threaten to use nuclear material to cause death, injury or substantial damage, or threaten to steal it. Section 2 implemented this part of Article 7 by creating three new offences. However the whole of section 2 was replaced
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Article 7 of the Convention requires State Parties to create criminal offences prohibiting the use or possession of nuclear material in a way that might cause death or injury, or "substantial damage to property," or to steal nuclear material. Section 1 of the Act implements Article 7 by giving the
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Section 1B, inserted by the 2008 Act, makes it an offence for a person of any nationality, and whether in the UK or not, to receive, hold or deal with nuclear material, or do an act directed at a nuclear facility, intending to damage the environment or being reckless as to whether the environment
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According to section 6(1) of the Act, the Act only applies to "material which, within the meaning of the Convention, is nuclear material used for peaceful purposes." Schedule 1 to the Act reproduces Article 1 of the Convention, which defines "nuclear material" in detail. The definition includes
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by people of other nationalities, provided that the offence was committed "in relation to or by means of nuclear material". If any person is prosecuted for such an offence before a court in any part of the UK, they may be tried and punished for that offence as if they had committed it there.
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This section, inserted by the 2008 Act, makes it an offence to be "knowingly concerned in" the importation or exportation of nuclear material from one country or territory to another, if done in prohibition of the law of that country or territory. The maximum sentence is 14 years.
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which causes death, injury or damage as a result of radiation or the release of radioactive material, even if done out of the UK and irrespective of the nationality of the person doing it. (Note that the damage does not have to be "substantial.")
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threatening to cause (by either of the means described above) death, injury, damage to property or damage to the environment, intending that the recipient of the threat will fear that it will be carried
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with a new version of section 2, which was substituted by the 2008 Act. The new section 2 creates four offences, which may be committed in the UK or elsewhere and by a person of any nationality:
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Section 4 made minor amendments to other legislation. Section 5 was to have implemented Article 11 of the Convention, which required State Parties to make the offences described in Article 7
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Section 1 was amended by the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 to extend the courts' jurisdiction to try certain offences if they were committed by doing an act directed at a
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The 2008 Act also increased the maximum penalties for some of the offences mentioned in section 1, if they were committed in certain circumstances set out in a new section 1A, to
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courts of England and Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland the jurisdiction to try certain offences (such as murder and robbery) even if they were committed outside the
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Section 3 requires that an offence which would not already be an offence but for the Act may not be prosecuted in England and Wales without the permission of the
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to determine whether any nuclear material or nuclear facility was being used for peaceful purposes. His determination is binding on the courts.
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Section 3A, inserted by the 2008 Act, states that the 1983 Act does not apply to anything done by the armed forces of any country.
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interfering with a nuclear facility, intending to cause death, injury or damage or being reckless as to whether that would occur;
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An Act to implement the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material; and for purposes connected therewith.
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threatening to steal nuclear material in order to influence a state, international governmental organisation or person.
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receiving, holding or dealing with nuclear material for the purpose of causing death, injury or damage;
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to commit an offence covered by section 1 of the Act, or created by sections 1B to 2 of the Act, or
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Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (Commencement No.13 and Transitory Provision) Order 2009
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This section, inserted by the 2008 Act, extends the jurisdiction of the UK courts to offences of
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Section 6 deals with the interpretation of certain provisions of the Act, and allows the
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as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from
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Text of amendments to the Act which came into force on 30 November 2009
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Text of the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
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will be damaged. The offence is punishable with life imprisonment.
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Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983 (Commencement) Order 1991
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Nuclear Explosions (Prohibition and Inspections) Act 1998
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Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
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These offences are punishable by life imprisonment.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
England and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
extraterritorial jurisdiction
Royal assent
Commencement
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
Text of statute as originally enacted
Text of the Nuclear Material (Offences) Act 1983
legislation.gov.uk
Act
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material
extraterritorial jurisdiction
nuclear material
nuclear weapons
Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001
Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008
plutonium
uranium
thorium
United Kingdom
nuclear facility
life imprisonment
attempting
conspiring
inciting

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