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Part III · General Provisions

18. Regulations

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(1)

The Minister may make regulations in respect of matters for which regulations are authorized or required to be made or to be prescribed by this Act.

(2)

In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes-

(a)

the procedures to be complied with in relation to entering and searching premises suspected of containing an anti-personnel mine;

(b)

the manner and procedures of detention, seizing, removal and destruction of an anti-personnel mine and document;

(c)

the manner and procedures to be followed to take into custody of any article or document in relation to the anti-personnel mine;

(d)

the forms and content of records;

(e)

the period for which such records are to be kept;

(f)

the form and content of periodic reports to be provided;

(g)

the circumstances in which special reports are required and the form and content of such special reports;

(h)

the time within which such periodic reports and special reports are to be made; and

(i)

the persons who are to sign such periodic reports and special reports.

(3)

Every regulation made by the Minister shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in such regulation.

(4)

Every regulation made by the Minister, shall within a period of three months after its publication in the Gazette, be brought before Parliament for approval. Any regulation which is not so approved, shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

(5)

A Notification of the date of disapproval shall be published in the Gazette.

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