CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 15 Outline of this Part

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 15

  (1)   The purpose of this Part is to ensure that the Director has knowledge of dealings with chemicals that facilitate the making of Australia's periodic declarations under the Convention.

  (2)   Division   1 deals with the grant, and renewal, of permits for persons who anticipate producing or otherwise dealing with scheduled chemicals in quantities such that the production or dealing needs to be part of the declaration process. The Division does not deal with persons in their production or other dealing with unscheduled discrete organic chemicals.

  (3)   Division   2 sets up a notification system to ensure that the Minister is informed of the production or other dealing with unscheduled discrete organic chemicals during the previous year in quantities such that that production or dealing needs to be part of the declaration process. The notification requirements also extend to notification in circumstances where a permit under Division   1 was in force in respect of a particular year, but the permit will not be in force in respect of the next year.