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Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Section 15

Title: Prohibition to Develop, Produce, Acquire, Etc., Taxic Chemical or Precursor

State: Central

Year: 2000

No person shall-- (a) produce, acquire, retain or use toxic Chemicals or Precursors listed in Schedule 1 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention, outside the territories of States Parties, and shall not transfer such Chemicals or Precursors outside the territory of India except to another State Party; (b) produce, acquire, retain, transfer or use Toxic Chemicals or Precursors listed in Schedule 1 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention without permission from the National Authority and unless-- (i) the Toxic Chemicals or Precursors listed in Schedule 1 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention are for the purposes to be applied to research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes; and (ii) the types of Toxic Chemicals or Precursors are strictly limited to those that can be justified with reference to the purposes specified in sub-clause (1) and the quantities of such Toxic Chemicals or Precursors for such purposes at any time do not exceed the limits fixed by the National Authority; (c) transfer the Toxic Chemicals or Precursors listed in Schedule 1 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention to another State Party outside India except-- (i) for the p

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Section 18

Title: Registration of Persons Engaged in Production, Etc., of Any Taxic Chemical or Precursor

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....Precursor or, as the case may be, as a producer of any Discrete Organic Chemical including Discrete Organic Chemicals containing elements of phosphorous, sulphur or fluorine. (3) The form of application to be made to the registration authority under sub-­section (1) or sub-section (2), the particulars to be contained in such application form, the manner in which such application shall be made, the fee payable on such application, the form of certificate of registration, the procedure to be followed in granting or cancelling certificate of registration shall be such as may be prescribed. (4) On receipt of the application referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), the registration authority shall, if the application is in the prescribed form, register the name of the applicant and grant him a certificate of registration. (5) The certificate of registration granted in pursuance of this section shall be valid for a period specified therein and may be renewed from time to time for such further period and on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Section 16

Title: Restriction of Transfer of Taxic Chemical or Precursor Listed in Schedule 2

State: Central

Year: 2000

No person shall, three years after 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.

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Section 33

Title: Liability of Taxic Chemicals, Precursors and Conveyance to Confiscation

State: Central

Year: 2000

(1) Whenever any offence punishable under Chapter VI has been committed, the goods or in respect of which or by means of which such offence has been committed, shall be liable to confiscation. (2) Any Toxic Chemical or Precursor lawfully produced, imported into India, transported, used, purchased or sold along with, or in addition to, any goods which is liable to confiscation under sub-section (1) and the receptacles, packages and coverings in which any goods liable to confiscation under sub-section (1), is found, and the other contents, if any, of such receptacles or packages shall likewise be liable to confiscation. (3) Any conveyance used in carrying any goods liable to confiscation under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) shall be liable to confiscation, unless the owner of the conveyance proves that it was used without the knowledge or connivance of the owner himself, his agent, if any, and the person in charge of the conveyance and that each of them had taken all reasonable precautions against such use.

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....Chemical Weapons or riot control agents as a method of warfare is received from the Organisation; (f) conduct inspections for the purposes of this Act; (g) interact with the Organisation in respect of acceptance of request of India for Challenge Inspection or to counter any frivolous or defamatory request made by any State Party against India to the Organisation; (h) scrutinise and accept list of Inspectors and to verify the Approved Equipment brought by an Inspection Team on to the Inspection Site; (i) provide escort to the Inspection Team and the Observer within the territory of India; (j) identify and oversee the closure and destruction of Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons Production Facilities, Old Chemical Weapons or Abandoned Chemical Weapons; (k) negotiate Managed Access during the Challenge Inspection; (l) ensure decontamination of Approved Equipment after completion of an Inspection; (m) advise Central Government for laying down safeguards for transportation, sampling or storage of Chemical Weapons and fixation of standards for emission or discharge of environmental pollutants arising out of the destruction of Chemical Weapons, Old Chemical Weapons, Abandoned Chemical.....

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Schedule I

Title: Schedule

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....Not permit in any place under its control any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention; and (c) Extend its penal legislation enacted under sub-paragraph (a) to any activity prohibited to a State Party under this Convention undertaken anywhere by natural persons, possessing its nationality, in conformity with international law. 2. Each State Party shall cooperate with other States Parties and afford the appropriate form of legal assistance to facilitate the implementation of the obligations under paragraph 1. 3. Each State Party, during the implemenation of its obligations under this Convention, shall assign the highest priority to ensuring the safety of people and to protecting the environment, and shall cooperate as appropriate with other States Parties in this regard Relations between the State Party and the Organization 4. In order to fulfill its obligation under this Convention, each State Party shall designate or establish a National Authority to serve as the national focal point for effective liaison with the Organization and other States Parties. Each State Party shall notify the Organization of its National Authority at the time that this.....

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 Chapter V

Title: Inspection, Search, Seizure and Forfeiture

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....with the intention of adversely affecting the operation of such instrument or Equipment, he shall be guilty of an offence punishable under this Act. Section 22 - Power to issue warrant and authorization (1) A Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class or any Magistrate of the second class specially empowered by the State Government in this behalf, may issue a warrant for the arrest of any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed any offence punishable under Chapter VI or for the search, whether by day or by night, of any industry, building, conveyance or place in which he has reason to believe that any goods in relation to which an offence punishable under Chapter VI has been committed or any document or other goods which may furnish evidence of the commission of such offence is kept or concealed. (2) Any enforcement officer or such other officer of the National Authority as is empowered in this behalf by general or special order by the Central Government or any such officer of a State Government as is empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the State Government, if he has reason to believe from personal knowledge.....

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Chapter II

Title: Establishment of the National Authority and Its Powers and Functions

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....Central Government to constitute Committee The Central Government may, if it considers it necessary or expedient so to do for the purposes of this Act, by order, published in the Official Gazette, constitute a Committee by such name as may be specified in the order for the purpose of overseeing the functions of the National Authority and exercising and performing such of the powers and functions of the Central Government under this Act (except the power to make rules under section 56) as may be specified in the order and subject to the supervision and control of the Central Government and the provisions of such order, such Committee may exercise the powers or perform the functions so specified in the order as if such Committee had been empowered by this Act to exercise those powers or perform those functions. Section 12 - Power of National Authority to call for information, etc (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the National Authority may, by general or special order, call upon a person, to furnish to that Authority periodically or as and when required any information, declaration or return concerning Toxic Chemicals or.....

Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 Chapter VI

Title: Offences and Penalties

State: Central

Year: 2000

.....or the authority notified by the Central Government, in the Official Gazette, to be competent to sanction prosecution of the offences under this Act. Section 50 - Appeals from the decision of the National Authority (1) Any person aggrieved by any direction of the National Authority issued under section 10 may prefer an appeal to the Central Government within such time as may be prescribed. (2) No appeal shall be admitted if it is preferred after the expiry of the period prescribed therefor: Provided that an appeal may be admitted after the expiry of the period prescribed therefor if the appellant satisfies the Central Government that he had sufficient cause for not preferring the appeal within the prescribed period. (3) Every appeal made under this section shall be made in such form and shall be accompanied by a copy of the direction appealed against and by such fee as may be prescribed. (4) The procedure for disposing of an appeal shall be such as may be prescribed: Provided that before disposing of an appeal, the appellant shall be given a reasonable opportunity of being heard. Section 51 - Provisions of Convention not to apply to certain mixtures .....