CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 2 Commencement

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 2

  (1)   Sections   1 and 2 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

  (2)   Subject to subsections   ( 3) and (4), the remaining provisions of this Act commence on a day or days to be fixed by Proclamation.

  (3)   Subject to subsection   ( 4), if a provision referred to in subsection   ( 2) does not commence on an earlier day, that provision commences on the day on which the Convention enters into force.

  (4)   Despite the fact that the provisions of Part   5 are proclaimed to commence at an earlier time, the provisions of that Part, in so far as they permit international compliance inspections of OCP facilities, do not operate until a date:

  (a)   that is proclaimed for the purpose of this subsection; and

  (b)   that is not earlier than the third anniversary of the day on which the Convention enters into force.