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WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION (PREVENTION OF PROLIFERATION) ACT 1995 - SECT 7

Additional operation of the Act

  (1)   Without prejudice to the effect that this Act has apart from this subsection, it also has the effect that it would have if its application were limited to:

  (a)   giving effect to:

  (i)   the Biological Weapons Convention; or

  (ii)   the Non - Proliferation Treaty; or

  (iii)   after the Chemical Weapons Convention comes into force for Australia - that Convention; or

  (iv)   any international obligation of Australia arising otherwise than under a Convention or Treaty referred to in a preceding subparagraph; or

  (b)   matters external to Australia ; or

  (c)   matters of international concern; or

  (d)   the defence of Australia ; or

  (e)   goods that are owned by, or are in the possession or control of, a trading corporation or a foreign corporation or services that are provided by a trading corporation, a financial corporation or a foreign corporation; or

  (f)   goods that are, or services that are provided, in the course of trade or commerce:

  (i)   between Australia and places outside Australia ; or

  (ii)   among the States; or

  (iii)   within a Territory, between a State and a Territory or between 2 Territories.

  (2)   Without prejudice to the effect that this Act has apart from this subsection, it also has the effect that it would have if its application were limited to goods that are owned by, or are in the possession or control of, a trading corporation in the course of its trading activities or services that are provided by a trading corporation in the course of its trading activities or by a financial corporation in the course of its financial activities.



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