Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act 1994

The operator of a facility must notify the facility to the Minister under this subsection if a permit to operate the facility during a particular year is or was held in accordance with a requirement of subsection 16(1) but no such permit will be in force in respect of the next year.

The operator of a facility must notify the facility to the Minister under this subsection if:

a permit to operate the facility during a particular year is or was held in accordance with a requirement of subsection 16(2) but no such permit will be in force in respect of the next year; or

subsection (3) applies in respect of that facility.

This subsection applies in respect of a facility if:

a permit is not required under subsection 16(2) to operate the facility during the year in which this section commences; but

such a permit would have been required under that subsection to operate the facility during any one or more of the 3 years before that year if this Act had been in force at the time.

The operator of a facility must notify the facility to the Minister under this subsection if:

a permit to operate the facility during a particular year is or was held in respect of the facility in accordance with a requirement of subsection 16(3) but no such permit will be in force in respect of the next year; or

subsection (5) applies in respect of that facility.

This subsection applies in respect of a facility if:

a permit is not required under subsection 16(3) to operate that facility during the year in which this section commences; and

such a permit would have been required under that subsection to operate the facility during the year before that year if this legislation had been in force at the time.

The operator of a facility must notify the facility to the Minister if either:

the amount of unscheduled discrete organic chemicals produced at the facility during the year before the notification (whether that year ended before or after this section commences) was more than 200 tonnes; or

the amount of a particular unscheduled discrete organic chemical:

that was produced at a plant comprising, or comprising part of, the facility during that year; and

that contained one or more of the elements phosphorus, sulphur or fluorine;

Subsection (6) does not apply if the facility was, in the year before the year in which it is notified, producing hydrocarbons or explosives in a manner specified in the regulations.

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