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Anti‑Personnel Mines Convention Act 1998

No. 126, 1998

Compilation No. 7

Compilation date:    10 March 2016

Includes amendments up to: Act No. 4, 2016

Registered:    16 May 2016

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Anti-Personnel Mines Convention Act 1998 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 10 March 2016 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

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Contents
Part 1—Introduction
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Simplified outline
4 Definitions
5 Crown to be bound
6 External Territories
Part 2—Offences relating to anti‑personnel mines
7 Offence to place, possess, develop, produce, acquire, stockpile or transfer anti‑personnel mines
8 Defence Minister may grant permission to retain anti‑personnel mines for the development of, and training in, mine detection techniques etc.
9 Offence not to deliver up anti‑personnel mines
10 Destruction or deactivation of anti‑personnel mines
11 Forfeiture of anti‑personnel mines
Part 3—Powers of fact‑finding missions
12 Appointment of inspectors
13 Conditions of appointment as an inspector
14 Powers available to inspectors for monitoring compliance
15 Inspector must produce identity card on request
16 General powers of inspectors in relation to premises
17 Details of warrant to be given to occupier etc.
18 Announcement before entry
19 Occupier entitled to be present during search
20 Monitoring warrants
21 Offences relating