Hong Kong Ordinances

CHEMICAL WEAPONS (CONVENTION) ORDINANCE - SECT 11

Notification to Director

PART 4

NOTIFICATIONS AND REPORTS IN RESPECT OF FACILITIES

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the operator of a facility shall—

   (a)  notify the facility to the Director in the specified form if—

        (i)    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

        (ii)   the amount of a particular unscheduled discrete organic 
               chemical— (A) that was produced at a plant comprising, or
               comprising part of, the facility during that year; and (B) that
               contained one or more of the elements phosphorus, sulphur or
               fluorine, was more than 30 tonnes, and the notification shall
               be given not later than the last day of January immediately
               following that year;

   (b)  if required to notify the Director under paragraph (a), keep for not
        less than 3 years after the particular year to which they relate such
        records—

        (i)    as are required by the Director; and

        (ii)   in relation to— (A) the facility, the plant or plants
               comprising, or comprising part of, the facility during a
               particular year; and (B) those chemicals dealt with at the
               facility during that particular year.

(2) Subsection (1)(a) does not apply if the facility was, in the year before
the year in which it is notified, only producing hydrocarbons or explosives.
[cf. Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Act 1994, s. 28(6) & (7), Commonwealth of
Australia]