Biological Weapons Act 2011
Number 13 of 2011
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 28 May 2019
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Biological Weapons Act 2011. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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Number 13 of 2011
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 28 May 2019
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.
Annotations
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Merchant Shipping (Registration of Ships) Act 2014 (43/2014)
All Acts up to and including Greyhound Racing Act 2019 (15/2019), enacted 28 May 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
None.
All statutory instruments up to and including European Communities (Sheep Identification) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. No. 243 of 2019), made 28 May 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 13 of 2011
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 28 May 2019
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Section
2. Offences — development, etc. of biological weapons.
5. Evidence in proceedings for offences outside State.
7. Presumption relating to conduct referred to in section 2(1) (including as applied by section 3).
8. Presumption relating to conduct referred to in section 2(2) (including as applied by section 3).
9. Liability for offences by bodies corporate.
11. Forfeiture on application to District Court.
Acts Referred to
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1997, No.16 |
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Companies Acts |
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2010, No. 22 |
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1955, No. 29 |
Number 13 of 2011
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS ACT 2011
REVISED
Updated to 28 May 2019
AN ACT TO GIVE FURTHER EFFECT TO THE PROTOCOL FOR THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE IN WAR OF ASPHYXIATING, POISONOUS OR OTHER GASES, AND OF BACTERIOLOGICAL METHODS OF WARFARE, DONE AT GENEVA ON 17 JUNE 1925; TO GIVE FURTHER EFFECT TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCTION AND STOCKPILING OF BACTERIOLOGICAL (BIOLOGICAL) AND TOXIN WEAPONS AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION, DONE AT WASHINGTON, LONDON AND MOSCOW ON 10 APRIL 1972; AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
[10th July, 2011]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: