apons: (1) No person shall
manufacture, produce, procure, sell, acquire, own, transfer, stockpile,
store, transport, export or import, invest in or manage any type of
nuclear, chemical, biological (bacteriological) or toxic weapons or
cause any one to do so.
Explanation: For the purposes of this Section,-
(a) 'chemical weapon' means any chemical weapon as
defined by the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of
Chemical Weapons and their Destruction, done at Paris
on 13 January 1993.
(b) 'biological or toxin weapon' means any biological
(bacteriological) or toxin weapon as defined by the
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development,
Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological
(Biological) and Toxin Weapons and their Destruction,
done at London, Moscow and Washington on 10 April,
1972
(2) A person who commits the offence referred to in subsection
(1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term
not exceeding twenty years and a fine not exceeding two hundred
thousand rupees.
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