Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION) ACT 1994 - SECT 2

  (1)   Sections   1 and 2 commence on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

  (2)   Subject to subsections   (3) and (4), the remaining provisions of this Act commence on a day or days to be fixed by Proclamation.

  (3)   Subject to subsection   (4), if a provision referred to in subsection   (2) does not commence on an earlier day, that provision commences on the day on which the Convention enters into force.

  (4)   Despite the fact that the provisions of Part   5 are proclaimed to commence at an earlier time, the provisions of that Part, in so far as they permit international compliance inspections of OCP facilities, do not operate until a date:

  (a)   that is proclaimed for the purpose of this subsection; and

  (b)   that is not earlier than the third anniversary of the day on which the Convention enters into force.