The Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000

Preamble

THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION ACT, 2000

ACT NO. 34 OF 2000

[26th August, 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:--

What this Act covers

Sections

Type to filter. 56 sections.

1. 1Short title, extent, application and commencement
2. 2Definitions
3. 3Application of the Convention
4. 4Power of Central Government to deny the request for inspection
5. 5Power of Central Government to declare Cessation of the Act
6. 6Establishment of National Authority
7. 7Powers and functions of National Authority
8. 8National Authority to submit initial, annual and other periodical declaration to Organization
9. 9Appointment of enforcement officers
10. 10Power of National Authority to issue directions
11. 11Power of Central Government to constitute Committee
12. 12Power of National Authority to call for information, etc
13. 13Prohibition to develop, produce, acquire, etc., Chemical Weapons
14. 14Knowledge about Old or Abandoned Chemical Weapons to be informed to National Authority
15. 15Prohibition to develop, produce, acquire, etc., Toxic Chemical or Precursor
16. 16Restriction on transfer of Toxic Chemical or Precursor listed in Schedule 2
17. 17Export or import to be made in accordance with Export and Import Policy
18. 18Registration of person engaged in production, etc., of any Toxic Chemical or Precursor
19. 19Power of Inspector to inspect any person or place
20. 20Enforcement officer to enter into any place for examining and testing facility or to conduct search
21. 21Certain acts to constitute an offence
22. 22Power to issue warrant and authorisation
23. 23Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant or authorisation
24. 24Power of seizure and arrest in public places
25. 25Procedure where seizure of goods liable to confiscation not possible
26. 26Power to stop and search conveyance
27. 27Conditions under which search of persons be conducted
28. 28Provisions of Act 2 of 1974 to apply to arrests, searches and seizures
29. 29Disposal of persons arrested and goods seized
30. 30Power to invest officers of the National Authority, etc., with powers of an officer in charge of a police station
31. 31Police to take charge of goods seized and delivered
32. 32Report of arrest and seizure
33. 33Liability of Toxic Chemical, Precursor and conveyance to confiscation
34. 34Confiscation of Goods used for concealing Toxic Chemicals or Precursors
35. 35Confiscation of sale proceeds of goods
36. 36Procedure in making confiscation
37. 37Power to call for information, etc
38. 38Information as to commission of offences
39. 39Punishment for failure to register
40. 40Punishment for contravention in relation to development, production, etc., of Chemical Weapons or riot control agents, etc
41. 41Punishment for contravention in relation to Toxic Chemicals, etc., listed in Schedule 1
42. 42Punishment for contravention in relation to transfer of Toxic Chemical, etc., listed in Schedule 2
43. 43Punishment for contravention in relation to export or import of Toxic Chemicals, etc
44. 44Punishment for contravention in relation to disclosure of confidential information
45. 45Punishment for contravention in relation to denial of access
46. 46Punishment for contravention in relation to failure to furnish information, declaration or return
47. 47Offence punishable under section 46 to be cognizable
48. 48Offences by companies
49. 49Prosecution of offences
50. 50Appeals from the decision of National Authority
51. 51Provisions of Convention not to apply to certain mixtures
52. 52Protection of action taken in good faith
53. 53Power to delegate
54. 54Officers to be public servants
55. 55Removal of difficulties
56. 56Power to make rules

Schedules

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Amending Acts

1 Act amending this enactment, passed by Parliament of India. The text above is the consolidated text as published.

Rules made under this Act

24 sets of Rules. India Code publishes Rules as a record and a document rather than as text, so these are indexed here and not reproduced. All Rules.

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