Atomic Energy Authority Act 1954

FIRST SCHEDULE Provisions as to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

1 The Authority shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and power to hold land without licence in mortmain. 2 The Authority may act notwithstanding a vacancy among their members. 3 The quorum of the Authority shall be three or such number, not being less than three, as the Authority may from time to time determine. 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 (1) A member of the Authority who is in any way directly or indirectly interested in a contract made or proposed to be made by the Authority shall, as soon as possible after the relevant circumstances have come to his knowledge, disclose the nature of his interest at a meeting of the Authority. (2) Any disclosure made under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph shall be recorded in the minutes of the Authority and the member— (a) shall not take part after the disclosure in any deliberation or decision of the Authority with respect to that contract; and (b) shall be disregarded for the purpose of constituting a quorum of the Authority for any such deliberation or decision. 6 Subject to the preceding provisions of this Schedule the Authority may regulate their own procedure. 7 (1) The Authority shall appoint a secretary and may appoint such other officers and take into their employment such other persons as they may determine. (2) The Authority shall— (a) pay to their officers and other persons employed by them such remuneration as the Authority may determine; and (b) as regards any officers or persons employed in whose case it may be determined by the Authority with the approval of the Lord President of the Council so to do, pay to or in respect of them such pensions, or provide and maintain for them such pension schemes (whether contributory or not), as may be so determined. (3) Where any officer of or person employed by the Authority, being a participant in any pension scheme applicable to his office or employment, becomes a member of the Authority, he may be treated for the purposes of the pension scheme as if his service as a member of the Authority were service as a officer of or person employed by the Authority, and his rights under the scheme shall not be affected by any provision of this Act which requires that the pensions or payments towards the provision of pensions to be paid or made in the case of members of the Authority shall be determined by the Lord President of the Council with the approval of the Treasury. (4) Except with the consent of the Lord President of the Council, the Authority shall not terminate on security grounds the employment of any officer of, or person employed by, the Authority. In this sub-paragraph the expression “security grounds” means grounds which are grounds for dismissal from the civil service of Her Majesty, in accordance with any arrangements for the time being in force relating to dismissals from that service for reasons of national security. 8 The application of the seal of the Authority shall be authenticated by the signatures of the chairman or some other member of the Authority authorised by the Authority to authenticate the application of the seal thereof, and of the secretary of the Authority or some person authorised by the Authority to act in his stead in that behalf. 9 Every document purporting to be an instrument issued by the Authority and to be sealed as aforesaid or to be signed on behalf of the Authority shall be received in evidence and shall be deemed to be such an instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown.