Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 10

             (1)  In determining:

                     (a)  the total amount of Schedule 1 chemicals that will be, or were, produced, acquired, retained or used at, or transferred from, a facility; or

                     (b)  the total amount of Schedule 2 chemicals that will be, or were, produced, processed or consumed, at a facility;

any amount of such a chemical that is, or was, subjected to more than one of those activities at that facility is to be counted once only.

             (2)  In determining the amount of Schedule 1 chemicals that are produced, acquired, retained or used at, or transferred from, Schedule 1 facilities during a year, an amount of such a chemical that is subjected to any of those activities at more than one Schedule 1 facility during a year is to be counted once only.

             (3)  For the purposes of this Act, the regulations may prescribe the method for working out the total amount of a specified Schedule 1 chemical that is produced, acquired, retained or used at, or transferred from, a facility during a year.

             (4)  For the purposes of this Act, the regulations may prescribe the method for working out the total amount of a specified Schedule 2 chemical that is produced, processed or consumed at a plant comprising, or comprising part of, a facility during a year.

             (5)  For the purposes of this Act, the regulations may prescribe the method for working out the total amount of a specified Schedule 3 chemical that is produced at a plant comprising, or comprising part of, a facility during a year.

             (6)  For the purposes of paragraph 28(6)(a), the regulations may prescribe the method for working out the total amount of unscheduled discrete organic chemicals produced at a facility during a year.

             (7)  For the purposes of paragraph 28(6)(b), the regulations may prescribe the method for working out the total amount of a specified unscheduled discrete organic chemical that is produced at a plant comprising, or comprising part of, a facility during a year.

             (8)  A method prescribed under this section may involve disregarding a chemical when produced at or below a specified concentration.

             (9)  Subsection (8) does not limit subsection (3), (4), (5), (6) or (7).

Note:          For specification by class, see section 46 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 .