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CHEMICAL WEAPONS (CONVENTION) ORDINANCE 42. Regulations

The Chief Executive in Council may make regulations prescribing matters—
 * (a) required or permitted by this Ordinance to be prescribed; or
 * (b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Ordinance,

and, in particular, making provision with respect to—
 * (c) the making of reports to the Organization in compliance with Hong Kong’s obligations under the Convention;
 * (d) offences in respect of contraventions of the regulations including the imposition in respect of any such offence of a fine not exceeding level 6 and of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 2 years.

43. Transitional

(1) Where on the relevant day the operator of a facility requires a permit to operate the facility during the year in which that day falls, then the operator shall be deemed to be the holder of a permit to operate the facility during that year—
 * (a) subject to paragraph (b), until the expiration of—
 * (i) 3 months immediately following that day; or
 * (ii) that year,
 * whichever first occurs;
 * (b) if an application is made under section 9—
 * (i) for a permit to operate the facility during that year; and
 * (ii) before whichever expiration referred to in paragraph (a) first occurs,
 * until the determination under section 10 of the application.

(2) Where the relevant day falls after 30 September in a year, then the operator of a facility who requires a permit to operate the facility during the immediately following year shall be deemed to be the holder of a permit to operate the facility during that immediately following year—
 * (a) subject to paragraph (b), until the expiration of 3 months immediately following that day;
 * (b) if an application is made under section 9—
 * (i) for a permit to operate the facility during that immediately following year; and
 * (ii) before the expiration referred to in paragraph (a) occurs,
 * until the determination under section 10 of the application.

(3) In this section, “relevant day” (有關日期) means the day on which section 8 commences.