General Nuclear Safety and Control Regulations (SOR/2000-202)

4. An application for a licence to abandon a nuclear substance, a nuclear facility, prescribed equipment or prescribed information shall contain the following information in addition to the information required by section 3:

• (a) the name and location of the land, buildings, structures, components and equipment that are to be abandoned;

• (b) the proposed time and location of the abandonment;

• (c) the proposed method of and procedure for abandonment; and

• (d) the effects on the environment and the health and safety of persons that may result from the abandonment, and the measures that will be taken to prevent or mitigate those effects.

5. An application for the renewal of a licence shall contain

• (a) the information required to be contained in an application for that licence by the applicable regulations made under the Act; and

• (b) a statement identifying the changes in the information that was previously submitted.

6. An application for the amendment, revocation or replacement of a licence shall contain the following information:

• (a) a description of the amendment, revocation or replacement and of the measures that will be taken and the methods and procedures that will be used to implement it;

• (b) a statement identifying the changes in the information contained in the most recent application for the licence;

• (c) a description of the nuclear substances, land, areas, buildings, structures, components, equipment and systems that will be affected by the amendment, revocation or replacement and of the manner in which they will be affected; and

• (d) the proposed starting date and the expected completion date of any modification encompassed by the application.

7. An application for a licence or for the renewal, suspension in whole or in part, amendment, revocation or replacement of a licence may incorporate by reference any information that is included in a valid, expired or revoked licence.

• 8. (1) For the purpose of section 25 of the Act, the Commission may renew a licence on its own motion if failure to renew the licence could pose an unreasonable risk to the environment, the health and safety of persons or national security.

• (2) For the purpose of section 25 of the Act, the Commission may, on its own motion, suspend in whole or in part, amend, revoke or replace a licence under any of the following conditions:

  • (a) the licensee is not qualified to carry on the licensed activity;

  • (b) the licensed activity poses an unreasonable risk to the environment, the health and safety of persons or the maintenance of national security;

  • (c) the licensee has failed to comply with the Act, the regulations made under the Act or the licence;

  • (d) the licensee has been convicted of an offence under the Act;

  • (e) a record referred to in the licence has been modified in a manner not permitted by the licence;

  • (f) the licensee no longer carries on the licensed activity;

  • (g) the licensee has not paid the licence fee prescribed by the Cost Recovery Fees Regulations; or

  • (h) failure to do so could pose an unreasonable risk to the environment, the health and safety of persons or national security.