The Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000 · V — INSPECTION, SEARCH, SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE

Section 32. Report of arrest and seizure

In force · As amended up to 2026-08

32. Report of arrest and seizure. —Whenever any person makes any arrest or seizure under this Act, he shall, within forty-eight hours next after such arrest or seizure, make a full report of all the particulars of such arrest or seizure to his immediate superior officer. 32. The Executive Council shall: (a) Consider and submit to the Conference the draft programme and budget of the Organization; (b) Consider and submit to the Conference the draft report of the Organization on the implementation of this Convention, the report on the performance of its own activities and such special reports as it deems necessary or which the Conference may request; (c) Make arrangements for the sessions of the Conference including the preparation of the draft agenda. 32. Notifications made by the Director-General shall include the following information: - (a) The type of inspection; - (b) The point of entry; - (c) The date and estimated time of arrival at the point of entry; - (d) The means of arrival at the point of entry; - (e) The site to be inspected; - (f) The names of inspectors and inspection assistants; - (g) If appropriate, aircraft clearance for special flights. 32. A State Party shall provide, for each of its chemical weapons destruction facilities, the plant operations manuals, the safety and medical plans, the laboratory operations and quality assurance and control manuals, and the environmental permits that have been obtained, except that this shall not include material previously provided. 32. Not less than 180 days before the destruction of a chemical weapons production facility starts, a State Party shall provide to the Technical Secretariat the detailed plans for destruction of the facility, including proposed measures for verification of destruction referred to in paragraph 33 (f), with respect to, inter alia : - (a) Timing of the presence of the inspectors at the facility to be destroyed; and - (b) Procedures for verification of measures to be applied to each item on the declared inventory. 32. Each State Party planning to establish such a facility after entry into force of this Convention shall conclude a facility agreement with the Organization before the facility begins operation or is used. 32. During this interim three-year period, each State Party shall require an end-use certificate, as specified below, for transfers of Schedule 2 chemicals to States not Party to this Convention. For such transfers, each State Party shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure that the transferred chemicals shall only be used for purposes not prohibited under this Convention. Inter alia , the State Party shall require from the recipient State a certificate stating, in relation to the transferred chemicals: - (a) That they will only be used for purposes not prohibited under this Convention; - (b) That they will not be re-transferred; - (c) Their types and quantities; - (d) Their end-use(s); and - (e) The name(s) and address(es) of the end-user(s). 32. To facilitate development of an inspection plan, the inspected State Party shall provide a safety and logistical briefing to the inspection team prior to access.

Source: India Code