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A Model Law: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Crimes Act: An Act to implement obligations under the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the 1925 Geneva Protocol

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2010

Christopher B. Harland  and
Angela Woodward
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 87 , Issue 859: Means of warfare , September 2005 , pp. 573 - 586
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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2005

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1 Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, 17 June 1925.

2 Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, opened for signature on 10 April 1972, and entered into force in 1975, (1976) UNTS Vol. 1015, p. 164 (No. 14860).

3 For example, fewer than 10 of the 53 Commonwealth countries had, at the time of writing, enacted specific legislation covering the obligations in the Convention, although 41 of them were party to it.

4 UN Doc. S/RES/1540 (28 April 2004).