Section 12:
Power of National Authority to call for information, etc.
(1) Notwithstanding anything
contained in any other law for the time being in force, the National Authority may, by general or special
order, call upon a person, to furnish to that Authority periodically or as and when required any
information, declaration or return concerning Toxic Chemicals or Precursors listed in any of the
Schedules 1 to 3 in the Annex on Chemicals to the Convention, Chemical Weapons, Old Chemical
Weapons, Abandoned Chemical Weapons, Chemical Weapons Production Facilities, riot control agents,
single small-scale facility or Discrete Organic Chemicals including those Discrete Organic Chemicals
containing elements of phosphorous, sulphur or fluorine with such particulars as may be specified by the
National Authority.
(2) No person shall, when complying with any requisition made under sub-section (1), give any
information or furnish any declaration, return or statement which he knows, or has reasonable cause to
believe to be false or not true in any material particular.