26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
“anti-handling device” means a device intended to protect a mine and which is part of, linked to, attached to or placed under the mine and which activates when an attempt is made to tamper with or otherwise intentionally disturb the mine;
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
“anti-personnel mine” means a mine that is designed, altered or intended to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person and that is capable of incapacitating, injuring or killing one or more persons. Mines that are designed, altered or intended to be detonated by the presence, proximity or contact of a vehicle as opposed to a person, and that are equipped with anti-handling devices are not considered to be anti-personnel mines as a result of being so equipped;
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
“Convention” means the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, set out in the Schedule to this Act, as amended from time to time in accordance with Article 13 of the Convention therein;
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
“mine” means ammunition designed, altered or intended to be placed under, on or near the ground or other surface area and to be exploded by the presence, proximity or contact of a person or a vehicle;
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
“transfer”, in respect of anti-personnel mines, includes, in addition to the physical movement of anti-personnel mines, the transfer of title to and control over anti-personnel mines, but does not include the transfer of territory containing emplaced anti-personnel mines.
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
This amendment seeks to include the definition of anti-handling device, anti-personnel mine, convention, mine and the word transfer as the terms that have been used in the Bill without being defined. Anti-handling is---
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:-
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
THAT, Clause 1of the Bill be amended by ─
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
(a) deleting the words “and shall come into operation on such day as the Cabinet Secretary may, by notice in the Gazette, appoint” appearing immediately after the expression“2014”;
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26 Aug 2015 in National Assembly:
(b) deleting the words “and commencement” appearing immediately after the word “title” in the margin note.
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