Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

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.