CHEMICAL WEAPONS (CONVENTION)
ORDINANCE
42. Regulations
The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations prescribing matters—
- (a) required or permitted by this Ordinance to be prescribed; or
- (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Ordinance,
and, in particular, making provision with respect to—
- (c) the making of reports to the Organization in compliance with Hong Kong’s obligations under the Convention;
- (d) offences in respect of contraventions of the regulations including the imposition in respect of any such offence of a fine not exceeding level 6 and of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years.
43. Transitional
(1) Where on the relevant day the operator of a facility requires a permit to operate the facility during the year in which that day falls, then the operator shall be deemed to be the holder of a permit to operate the facility during that year—
- (a) subject to paragraph (b), until the expiration of—
- (i) 3 months immediately following that day; or
- (ii) that year,
- whichever first occurs;
- (b) if an application is made under section 9—
- (i) for a permit to operate the facility during that year; and
- (ii) before whichever expiration referred to in paragraph (a) first occurs,
- until the determination under section 10 of the application.
(2) Where the relevant day falls after 30 September in a year, then the operator of a facility who requires a permit to operate the facility during the immediately following year shall be deemed to be the holder of a permit to operate the facility during that immediately following year—
- (a) subject to paragraph (b), until the expiration of 3 months immediately following that day;
- (b) if an application is made under section 9—
- (i) for a permit to operate the facility during that immediately following year; and
- (ii) before the expiration referred to in paragraph (a) occurs,
- until the determination under section 10 of the application.
(3) In this section, “relevant day” (有關日期) means the day on which section 8 commences.