307 Provision of additional police services

Chapter 2
Civil Nuclear Constabulary

307  Provision of additional police services

(1)     After section 55 of the Energy Act 2004 insert—

“Additional services
55A Provision of additional police services

(1)     The Constabulary may, with the consent of the Secretary of State, provide additional police services to any person.

(2)     In this Chapter, “additional police services” means services relating to the protection of places, persons or materials.

(3)     In subsection (2), “place” includes—

(a)     premises, facilities or equipment at a place;

(b)     any vehicle, vessel, aircraft or hovercraft.

(4)     The Secretary of State must not give consent for the purposes of subsection (1) unless satisfied, on an application made by the Police Authority, that—

(a)     the provision of the additional police services in question is in the interests of national security,

(b)     the provision by the Constabulary of those services will not prejudice the carrying out of its primary function under section 52(2), and

(c)

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