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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Atomic Energy Act, 1962 Section 15

Requisitioning of Any Substance for Extracting Uranium or Plutonium

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Atomic Energy Act, 1962 Section 15 is part of Atomic Energy Act, 1962 - Requisitioning of Any Substance for Extracting Uranium or Plutonium. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) The Central Government shall have the right to require that any substance which, in the opinion of the Central Government, contains uranium, plutonium or any of their isotopes, shall be delivered to it and the Central Government may extract from that substance the uranium, plutonium or any of their isotopes contained therein and return the substance to the person concerned on payment of compensation which shall be determined in accordance with section 21 :

Provided that such compensation shall not, in any case, exceed the cost incurred by the person in the production, mining or irradiation of the substance and in determining the same no account shall be taken of the value of the uranium, plutonium or any of their isotopes extracted from the substance.

(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent the Central Government from permitting, subject to such conditions as it may deem fit to impose, the use of small quantities of natural uranium for the purpose of examination, test or analysis.

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What does Atomic Energy Act, 1962 Section 15 provide?

Section Section 15 of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962 (Requisitioning of Any Substance for Extracting Uranium or Plutonium) is reproduced on this page as part of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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