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CHEMICAL WEAPONS (CONVENTION)
ORDINANCE

Ord. No. 26 of 2003
A1091


makes or causes to be made any statement or furnishes or causes to be furnished any information which is false or misleading in a material particular or omits any material particular commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years, unless he satisfies the court that he did not know and had no reason to believe the statement or information to be false or misleading or the omission to be material.

(2) Any person who, without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails to provide a document or other article in accordance with a requirement referred to in subsection (1)(b) commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of $200,000 and to imprisonment for 2 years.

37. Time limitation for criminal proceedings

In any case of an offence, other than an indictable offence, under this Ordinance, a complaint shall be made or an information laid in respect of the offence within 2 years or, in the case of an offence under section 35(2), 3 years from the time when the matter of the complaint or information, as the case may be, arose.

PART 10
Miscellaneous

38. Appeals

(1) The holder of, or the applicant for, a permit to which a relevant decision applies may appeal in writing to the Chief Executive in Council—

(a) against the decision; and
(b) not later than 28 days after notice of the decision was served on the holder or the applicant, as the case may be.

(2) In subsection (1), “relevant decision” (有關決定) means a decision of the Director to which section 10(4) applies.

(3) The Chief Executive in Council shall determine an appeal under subsection (1) by confirming, varying or reversing the decision the subject of the appeal.

39. Power of Director to specify forms

(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Director may specify the form of any document required under this Ordinance to be in the specified form and the form of such other documents required for the purposes of this Ordinance as he thinks fit.