Section 134: Prohibition of production or transaction of nuclear, chemical, biological (bacteriological) or toxin weapons

1) No person shall manufacture, produce, procure, sell, acquire, own, transfer, stockpile, store, transport, export or import, invest in or manage any type of nuclear, chemical, biological (bacteriological) or toxic weapons or cause any one to do so.

Explanation: For the purposes of this Section, –

(a) “chemical weapon” means any chemical weapon as defined by the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction, done at Paris on 13 January 1993.

(b) “biological or toxin weapon” means any biological (bacteriological) or toxin weapon as defined by the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and their Destruction, done at London, Moscow and Washington on 10 April 1972.

2) A person who commits the offence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be liable to a sentence of imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty years and a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand rupees.