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Section 4: Prohibitions relating to anti-personnel mines

Anti-Personnel Mines (Prohibition) Act

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4. Prohibitions relating to anti-personnel mines (1) Notwithstanding the Explosives Act but subject to subsection (2)— (a) no person shall use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain, transfer to any one, directly or indirectly, any antipersonnel mine; (b) no person shall assist, encourage or induce, in any way, any other person to engage in any of the acts prohibited under paragraph (a). (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1)— (a) the retention or transfer of anti-personnel mines for the development and training in mine detention, mine clearance, or mine destruction techniques shall not, where the quantity of such mines does not exceed the minimum number absolutely necessary for those purposes, constitute an offence; (b) the transfer of anti-personnel mines for the purpose of destruction shall not constitute an offence.

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