CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 38 International inspection powers

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 38

  (1)   A reference in this Division to an international inspection power is a reference to a power to:

  (a)   search a declared facility; or

  (b)   take photographs (including video recordings), or make sketches, of the facility, of any equipment or any matter or thing on or in the facility; or

  (c)   inspect or examine a matter or thing; or

  (d)   take samples of a matter or thing; or

  (e)   measure a matter or thing; or

  (f)   examine a document (including a record kept under this Act or the regulations or under a condition of a permit); or

  (g)   take extracts from, or make copies of, a document (including a record of a kind referred to in paragraph   ( f)); or

  (h)   operate equipment, including electronic equipment, located at the facility, if the national inspector believes, on reasonable grounds, that the equipment can be operated without damaging it; or

  (i)   take onto a facility any equipment or material that is approved by the Organization and reasonably required for the purpose of exercising a power under any of the above paragraphs.

  (2)   A power referred to in paragraph   ( 1)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (h) or (i) may only be exercised in a manner that the national inspector believes, on reasonable grounds, to be in accordance with safety procedures applicable at the facility.