Act Number: 34

Act Name: The Chemical Weapons Convention Act, 2000

Year: 2000

Enactment Date: 2000-08-26

Long Title: An Act to give effect to the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers

Department: Department of Chemicals and Petro-Chemicals

Section 44: Punishment for contravention in relation to disclosure of confidential information.
    Whoever, in contravention of any provision of this Act, divulges any confidential information obtained by the National Authority from any declaration or return furnished or any statement made, information supplied to, or obtained by, an enforcement officer during the course of any inspection carried out under the provisions of this Act to any other person, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than one year but which may extend to term of life and shall also be liable to fine which may extend to one lakh rupees.
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