Hong Kong Ordinances

NUCLEAR MATERIAL (LIABILITY FOR CARRIAGE) ORDINANCE - SECT 3

Duty of relevant operators

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 64 of 1999 s. 3

In the case of any nuclear material which is not excepted material and which-

   (a)  is in the course of carriage on behalf of a relevant operator;

   (b)  is in the course of carriage to such an operator's relevant 
        installation with the written agreement of that operator from a place
        outside the relevant territories; or

   (c)  having been on such an operator's relevant installation or in the
        course of carriage on behalf of such an operator, has not subsequently
        been on any other relevant installation or in the course of any other
        relevant carriage or (except in the course of relevant carriage)
        within the territorial limits of a country, territory or place which
        is not a relevant territory, (Amended 64 of 1999 s. 3) it shall be the
        duty of that operator to secure that no occurrence taking place wholly
        or partly within Hong Kong causes injury to any person or damage to
        any property of any person other than that operator, being injury or
        damage arising out of or resulting from the radioactive properties, or
        a combination of those and any toxic, explosive or other hazardous
        properties, of that nuclear material. (Enacted 1995) [cf. 1965 c. 57
        s. 10(1) U.K.]