Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993 (Act No. 87 1993)

In these regulations any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act or the Chemical Weapons Convention, as the case may be, shall have the meaning so assigned and, unless the context otherwise indicates—

"Chemical Weapons Convention"

means the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction (including its Annexes), which was signed by the Government of the Republic of South Africa on 14 January 1993 and ratified by South Africa by the deposition of its instrument of ratification on 14 September 1995, and published for general information as Government Notice No. 754 of 2 May 1997;

"consumption"

in relation to a chemical, means its conversion into another chemical via a chemical, biochemical or biological reaction or the application of the chemical onto a medium from which it cannot be removed;

"discrete organic chemical"

means any chemical belonging to a class of chemical compounds consisting of all compounds of carbon, except for its oxides, sulphides and metal carbides or carbonates, identifiable by chemical structure, by structural formula, if known, and by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry number, if assigned, and not contained in the chemicals listed in any Schedule appearing in the Annex on Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention;

"owner"

means the natural or legal person who is the registered legal owner of a facility or controlled goods;

"person in control"

means the natural or legal person who is on a day-to-day basis responsible for any facility or any activity relating to controlled goods;

"PSF discrete organic chemical"

means any discrete organic chemical containing one or more of the elements phosphorus, sUlphur or fluorine, and not contained in the chemicals listed in any Schedule appearing in the Annex on Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention;

"the Act"

means the Non-Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, 1993 (Act No. 87 of 1993);

"the Notice"

means Government Notice No. 18 of 3 February 2010 published in Government Gazette No. 32893;

"Verification Annex"

means the Annex on Implementation and Verification of the Chemical Weapons Convention.