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Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Preamble 1

Title: Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005

State: Central

Year: 2005

.....devices, or to transfer control over such weapons or explosive devices, and not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any other country to manufacture nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; AND WHEREAS India is committed to prevent a non-State actor and a terrorist from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems; AND WHEREAS India is committed to the objective of global nuclear disarmament; AND WHEREAS India is committed to its obligations as a State Party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Skpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Skpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction; AND WHEREAS India is exercising controls over the export of chemicals, organisms, materials, equipment, and technologies in relation to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems under other relevant Acts; AND WHEREAS it is considered necessary to provide for integrated legal measures to exercise controls over the export of materials, equipment, and technologies and to prohibit.....

Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Section 8

Title: Prohibition Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction

State: Central

Year: 2005

(1) No person shall unlawfully manufacture, acquire, possess, develop or transport a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device and their means of delivery. (2) No person shall unlawfully transfer, directly or indirectly, to any one a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, or transfer control over such a weapon, knowing it to be a nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device. (3) No person shall unlawfully manufacture, acquire, possess, develop or transport a biological or chemical weapon or their means of delivery. (4) No person shall unlawfully transfer, directly or indirectly, to any one biological or chemical weapons. (5) No person shall unlawfully transfer, directly or indirectly, to any one missiles specially designed for the delivery of weapons of mass destruction.

The Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2005

.....devices, or to transfer control over such weapons or explosive devices, and not in any way to assist, encourage, or induce any other country to manufacture nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; And Whereas India is committed to prevent a non-State actor and a terrorist from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems; And Whereas India is committed to the objective of global nuclear disarmament; And Whereas India is committed to its obligations as a State Party to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction; And Whereas India is exercising controls over the export of chemicals, organisms, materials, equipment, and technologies in relation to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems under other relevant Acts; And Whereas it is considered necessary to provide for integrated legal measures to exercise controls over the export of materials, equipment, and technologies and to prohibit unlawful.....

Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Section 4

Title: Definitions

State: Central

Year: 2005

.....in the Atomic Energy Act, 1962(33 of 1962); (f) "item" means materials, equipment, and technology, of any description, notified under this Act or any other Act related to relevant activity; (g) "non-State actor" is a person or entity not acting under the lawful authority of any country; (h) "nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device" means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final; (i) "public domain" means domain that has no restrictions upon dissemination of information within or from it; existence of any legal rights to the intellectual property in that information does not remove such information from being in public domain; (j) "relevant activity" means,-- (i) the development, production, handling, operation, maintenance, storage, or dissemination of a nuclear, chemical or biological weapon; or (ii) the development, production, maintenance, storage or dissemination of missiles specially designed for delivering any such weapon; (k) "re-transfer" means transfer of any item notified under this Act from any country or entity to which it has.....

Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Section 11

Title: Prohibition of Export

State: Central

Year: 2005

No person shall export any material, equipment, or technology knowing that such material, equipment, or technology is intended to be used in the design or manufacture of a biological weapon, chemical weapon, nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, or in their missile delivery systems.

Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibition of Unlawful Activities) Act, 2005 Section 3

Title: Extent and Application

State: Central

Year: 2005

.....or subsidiaries, outside India; (c) any ship, aircraft or other means of transport registered in India or outside India, wherever it may be; (d) foreigners while in India; (e) persons in the service of the Government of India, within and beyond India. (5) Notwithstanding the applicability of the provisions of any other Central Act relating to any activity provided herein, the provisions of this Act shall apply to export, transfer, re-transfer, transit and trans-shipment of material, equipment or technology of any description as are identified, designated, categorised or considered necessary by the Central Government, as pertinent or relevant to India as a Nuclear Weapon State, or to the national security of India, or to the furtherance of its foreign policy or its international obligations under any bilateral, multilateral or international treaty, Covenant, Convention or arrangement relating to weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery, to which India is a Party.

The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010no. 38 of 2010[21st September, 2010.] Complete Act

Title: The Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Act, 2010no. 38 of 2010[21st September, 2010.]

Year: 2010

.....the Central Government or the person, officer or authority in respect of anything done by it or him in good faith in pursuance of this Act or of any rule or order made, or direction issued, thereunder. 48. Power to make rules. - (1) The Central Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing powers such rules may provide for - (a) the other financial security and the manner thereof under sub-section (1) of section 8;(b) the salary and allowances payable to and the other terms and conditions of service of Claims Commissioner under section 11; (c) the procedure to be followed by Claims Commissioner under sub-section (1) of section 12; (d) the person to be associated by Claims Commissioner and the manner thereof, under sub-section (2) of section 12; (e) the remuneration, fee or allowances of associated person under sub-section (3) of section 12; (f) any other matter under clause (f) of sub-section (4) of section 12; (g) the form of application, the particulars it shall contain and the documents it shall accompany, under sub-section (1) of section 15;(h) the salary and.....

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Chapter III

Title: Prohibition and Regulation of Chemical Weapons and Tixic Chemicals

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....the 29th day of April, 1997, transfer to or receive from any person, who is not a citizen of a State Party, any Toxic Chemical or Precursor listed in Schedule 2 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention. Section 17 - Export or import to be made in accordance with Export and Import Policy No person shall export from, or import into, India a Toxic Chemical or Precursor listed in any of the Schedules 1 to 3 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention except in accordance with the provisions of the Export and Import Policy determined by the Central Government from time to time under the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992) and the Orders issued thereunder.

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Section 14

Title: Knowledge About Old or Abandoned Chemical Weapons to Be Informed to National Authority

State: Central

Year: 2000

Any person having knowledge about the possession or location of Old Chemical Weapons or Abandoned Chemical Weapons shall inform the National Authority of such possession and the precise location of such Old Chemical Weapons or Abandoned Chemical Weapons within seven days from the commencement of this Act: Provided that where the knowledge about the possession or location of Old Chemical Weapons or Abandoned Chemical Weapons is obtained after the commencement of this Act, an information about knowledge of such possession or location shall be given to the National Authority within seven days from the occurrence of such knowledge.

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Section 13

Title: Prohibition to Develop, Produce, Acquire, Etc., Chemical Weapons

State: Central

Year: 2000

(1) No person shall-- (a) develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or use Chemical Weapons or transfer, directly or indirectly, any Chemical Weapons to any person; (b) use riot control agents as a method of warfare; (c) engage in any military preparations to use Chemical Weapons; (d) assist, encourage or induce, in any manner, any person to engage in- (i) the use of any riot control agent as a method of warfare; (ii) any other activity prohibited to a State Party under the Convention. (2) The prohibition contained in sub-section (1) shall not apply to the retention or possession of Chemical Weapons, which are permitted by the Convention, pending destruction of such Weapons.