Section 5: Prohibition relating to biological and toxin weapons
consolidated text (as at 2018). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
5. Prohibition relating to biological and toxin weapons
(1) No person shall develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or
retain—
(a) any microbial or other biological agent, or toxin, of a type and in
a quantity that has no justification for prophylactic, protective or
other peaceful purposes;
(b) any weapon, equipment or means of delivery designed to use
microbial or other biological agents, or toxins, for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.
(2) No person shall transfer any biological agent or toxin to another person, where he knows or has reason to believe that the biological agent or
toxin is likely to be kept or used otherwise than for prophylactic, protective
or other peaceful purposes.
(2A) No person shall, by any means, wilfully and unlawfully, directly or
indirectly, provide or collect funds with the intention or knowledge that they
will be used, in full or in part, for the manufacture, acquisition, possession,
development, export, transhipment, brokering, transport, transfer, stockpiling
or use of biological agents or toxins and their means of delivery and related
materials.
(3) This section shall apply to any act done outside Mauritius by a citizen
of Mauritius.
[S. 5 amended by s. 6 of Act 11 of 2018 w.e.f. 9 August 2018.]