CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 42 Routine international compliance inspections of OCP facilities

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 42

  (1)   Subject to subsection   ( 2), an international compliance inspection of an OCP facility may be carried out at any time during the period:

  (a)   beginning on the day of notification of the facility under section   28; and

  (b)   ending 90 days after the start of the year following the year in which that notification occurred.

  (2)   A national inspector and an Organization inspector may, subject to any facility agreement or arrangements for managed access referred to in Division   7:

  (a)   with the consent of the operator of an OCP facility; or

  (b)   under a warrant issued under section   51 in respect of the facility;

enter the facility and exercise, on or in the facility, any international inspection powers for international compliance purposes.

Note:   For the obligations of a national inspector in relation to not delaying or otherwise hindering the carrying out of an international compliance inspection, see section   95 of this Act and paragraph   41 of Part   II of the Verification Annex to the Convention.