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Make provision for the control of cluster munitions; for the destruction of such |
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munitions; and for connected purposes. |
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Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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1 | Offences relating to cluster munitions |
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(a) | use a cluster munition, |
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(b) | develop or produce a cluster munition, |
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(c) | participate in the acquisition or disposal of a prohibited object, |
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(d) | have a prohibited object in his possession, or |
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(e) | participate in the transfer of a prohibited object, |
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| in the United Kingdom or elsewhere. |
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(2) | Under subsection (1)(c) a person shall be deemed to have participated in the |
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acquisition of a prohibited object by— |
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(a) | acquiring or entering into a contract to acquire it, or |
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(b) | making arrangements under which another person either acquires or |
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enters into a contract to acquire it. |
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(3) | Under subsection (1)(e) a person shall be deemed to have participated in the |
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transfer of a prohibited object by— |
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(a) | transferring or entering into a contract to transfer it, or |
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(b) | making arrangements under which another person either acquires or |
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enters into a contract to acquire it. |
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(4) | For the purposes of this Act— |
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(a) | to acquire a prohibited object is to buy, hire, borrow or accept it as a gift, |
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(b) | to dispose of a prohibited object is to sell, let on hire, lend or give it as |
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(5) | It is not an offence under subsection (1)(c), (d) and (e) for a person to acquire, |
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dispose of, possess or transfer a prohibited object if this is done— |
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(a) | to secure its safe destruction, |
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(b) | to aid development of techniques of explosive ordinance disposal, or |
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(c) | for the purposes of explosive ordinance disposal training. |
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2 | Securing the safe destruction of prohibited objects |
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The Secretary of State may serve a notice requiring the safe destruction of a |
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(1) | The Secretary of State may by order make such additions to, omissions from or |
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other modifications to this Act as he considers necessary to give effect to any |
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amendment of relevant international humanitarian law. |
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(2) | The power to make an order under subsection (1) shall be exercisable by |
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statutory instrument; and no such order shall be made unless a draft of it has |
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been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament. |
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(1) | A cluster munition is a container which disperses multiple explosive |
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(2) | A component of a cluster munition is anything designed or adapted to form |
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part of a cluster munition. |
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(3) | A prohibited object is a cluster munition or any component of a cluster |
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(4) | A cluster munition is not to be taken as— |
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(a) | a container which disperses nuclear, biological, chemical, electronic, |
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landmine, propaganda or pyrotechnic submunitions, or |
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(b) | a container which disperses sensor-fused submunitions which |
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autonomously detect and engage military targets and which self- |
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destruct, self-deactivate or self-neutralise. |
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(1) | This Act may be cited as the Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) Act 2007. |
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(2) | This Act extends to Northern Ireland. |
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Cluster Munitions (Prohibition) [HL] |
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To Make provision for the control of cluster munitions; for the destruction of |
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such munitions; and for connected purposes. |
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