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CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION ACT, 2000 CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION ACT, 2000 34 of 2000 An Act to give effect to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. whereas a Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction was signed on behalf of the Government of India at Paris on the 14th day of January, 1993; And whereas India, having ratified the said Convention, has to make provisions for giving effect thereto and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows- PART 1: DEFINITIONS: PART 2: GENERAL RULES OF VERIFICATION: PART 3: GENERAL PROVISIONS FOR VERIFICATION MEASURES PURSUANT TO ARTICLES IV, V AND VI, PARAGRAPH 3: PART 4A: DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND ITS VERIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE IV: PART 4B: OLD CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND ABANDONED CHEMICAL WEAPONS: PART 5: DESTRUCTION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS PRODUCTION FACILITIES AND ITS VERIFICATION PURSUANT TO ARTICLE: PART 6: ACTIVITIES NOT PROHIBITED UNDER THIS CONVENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE VI REGIME FOR SCHEDULE 1 CHEMICALS AND FACILITIES RELATED TO SUCH CHEMICALS: PART 7: ACTIVITIES NOT PROHIBITED UNDER THIS CONVENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE VI REGIME FOR SCHEDULE 2 CHEMICALS AND FACILITIES RELATED TO SUCH CHEMICALS: Part 8: ACTIVITIES NOT PROHIBITED UNDER THIS CONVENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE VI REGIME FOR SCHEDULE 3 CHEMICALS AND FACILITIES RELATED TO SUCH CHEMICALS: PART 9: INVESTIGATIONS IN CASES OF ALLEGED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS: PART 10: CHALLENGE INSPECTIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE IX: PART 11: INVESTIGATIONS IN CASES OF ALLEGED USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS: CHAPTER 1: PRELIMINARY:
1) This Act may be called the Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000.
(2) It extends to the whole of India, and it shall apply to--
(a) citizens of India outside India; and (b) associates, branches or subsidiaries, outside India of companies or bodies corporate, registered or incorporated in India.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act.