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Provision Reference: s 104 (pt 1/37)
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104  Regulations
  The Governor‑General may make regulations prescribing matters:
 (a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
 (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act;
and, in particular making provision with respect to:
 (c) the manner in which any notification by the Director that is required under this Act, or under the regulations to a declared facility is to be effected; and
 (d) the imposition of penalties, not exceeding a fine of 10 penalty units, for offences against the regulations; and
 (e) the making of reports to the Organization in compliance with Australia's obligations under the Convention.

Schedule—The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction
Subsection 7(1)
(definition of "Convention")

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
          Preamble                                                                       2
I.        General Obligations                                                            2
II.       Definitions and Criteria                                                       3
III.      Declarations                                                                   5
IV.       Chemical Weapons                                                               7
V.        Chemical Weapons Production Facilities                                         9
VI.       Activities not Prohibited Under this Convention                                11
VII.      National Implementation Measures                                               12
VIII.     The Organization                                                               13
IX.       Consultations, Cooperation and Fact‑Finding                                    20
X.        Assistance and Protection Against Chemical Weapons                             23
XI.       Economic and Technological Development                                         25
XII.      Measures to Redress a Situation and to Ensure Compliance, including Sanctions  25
XIII.     Relation to Other International Agreements                                     26
XIV.      Settlement of Disputes                                                         26
XV.       Amendments                                                                     27
XVI.      Duration and Withdrawal                                                        28
XVII.     Status of the Annexes                                                          28
XVIII.    Signature                                                                      28
XIX.      Ratification                                                                   28
XX.       Accession                                                                      28
XXI.      Entry into Force                                                               29
XXII.     Reservations                                                                   29
XXIII.    Depositary                                                                     29
XXIV.     Authentic Texts                                                                29
Annex 1:  Annex on Chemicals                                                             30
Annex 2:  Annex on Implementation and Verification ("Verification Annex")                35
Annex 3:  Annex on the Protection of Confidential Information ("Confidentiality Annex")  109

PREAMBLE
The States Parties to this Convention,
DETERMINED to act with a view to achieving effective progress towards general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, including the prohibition and elimination of all types of weapons of mass destruction,
DESIRING to contribute to the realization of the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
RECALLING that the General Assembly of the United Nations has repeatedly condemned all actions contrary to the principles and objectives of the Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925 (the Geneva Protocol of 1925),
RECOGNIZING that this Convention reaffirms principles and objectives of and obligations assumed under the Geneva Protocol of 1925, and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction signed at London, Moscow and Washington on 10