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- (B) the personnel who have entered the area where the biological agents or toxins are used or stored;
- (b) maintain a record of all visitors to the facility; and
- (c) report immediately to the Director in such form and manner as the Director may require—
- (i) all confirmed or suspected infections or illnesses acquired by any member of the staff of the facility in the course of carrying out any activity involving biological agents or toxins at the facility;
- (ii) all adverse incidents involving biological agents that may potentially cause transmission of any infectious disease;
- (iii) all adverse incidents involving toxins;
- (iv) all loss, whether through theft or otherwise, of biological agents and toxins; and
- (v) the destruction by the operator of the facility of any of his stocks of First Schedule (Part II) biological agents, Second Schedule biological agents and Fifth Schedule toxins.
Failure to perform duties and obligations
45.—(1) Where the operator of a facility fails to comply with any duty or obligation imposed under this Division—
- (a) he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $1,000 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction; and
- (b) the Director may order any one or more of the following:
- (i) the immediate cessation of any activity involving any biological agent or toxin at the facility;
- (ii) the destruction of any biological agent or toxin at the facility;
- (iii) the decontamination of the facility;
