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CHEMICAL WEAPONS (PROHIBITION)
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"Chemicals Annex" means the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention;

"conveyance" includes any vessel, train, vehicle, aircraft or other mode of transport;

"Director" means the Director for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons appointed under section 6 (1) and includes any person appointed to act in the place of the Director during the temporary absence of the Director;

"export", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means take or cause to be taken out of Singapore by land, water or air and includes the placing of any thing in a conveyance for the purposes of being taken out of Singapore but does not include the taking out of Singapore of that thing on the same conveyance on which it was brought into Singapore unless that thing after being brought into Singapore has been landed in Singapore;

"import", with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means to bring or cause to be brought into Singapore by land, water or air from any place which is outside Singapore but does not include the bringing into Singapore of any thing which is to be taken out of Singapore on the same conveyance on which it was brought into Singapore without any landing in Singapore;

"international inspector" means an individual designated by the Technical Secretariat according to the procedures set forth in the Verification Annex to the Convention to carry out an inspection or visit in accordance with the Convention, and includes any inspection assistant as defined in the Convention;

"licence" means a licence granted under section 9;

"national inspector" means any person who is a national inspector by virtue of, or appointed under, section 16;

"permitted purpose" means—

(a) in the case of a Schedule 1 chemical, research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purpose;