Cluster Munitions And Anti-Personnel Mines Act 2008

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Number 20 of 2008


CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ACT 2008


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART 1

Preliminary and General

Section

1. Short title and commencement.

2. Interpretation.

3. Laying of orders before Houses of Oireachtas.

4. Expenses.

PART 2

Cluster Munitions and Explosive Bomblets

5. Orders.

6. Offences.

7. Permitted conduct.

PART 3

Anti-Personnel Mines

8. Orders.

9. Offences.

10. Permitted conduct.

PART 4

Investment of Public Moneys

11. Definitions (Part 4).

12. Duty of investors to avoid investment in munitions company.

13. Direct investment in munitions company.

14. Indirect investment in munitions company.

15. Derivatives based on a financial index.

PART 5

Penalties and Miscellaneous Provisions

16. Provision of information.

17. Penalties.

18. Liability for offences committed by body corporate.

19. Forfeiture.

SCHEDULE 1

Convention on Cluster Munitions

SCHEDULE 2

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction


Acts Referred to

Companies Acts

Defence (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1960

1960, No. 44

Defence (Amendment) Act 2006

2006, No. 20

Mercantile Marine Act 1955

1955, No. 29

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Number 20 of 2008


CLUSTER MUNITIONS AND ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES ACT 2008


AN ACT TO GIVE EFFECT TO THE CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS, DONE AT DUBLIN ON 30 MAY 2008, AND TO GIVE FURTHER EFFECT TO THE CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF THE USE, STOCKPILING, PRODUCTION AND TRANSFER OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES AND ON THEIR DESTRUCTION, DONE AT OSLO ON 18 SEPTEMBER 1997, AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.

[2nd December, 2008]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: