Hazardous Waste (Control of Export, Import and Transit) Act 1997 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Miscellaneous
47. Convention countries
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Basel Convention
“Basel Convention” means the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal and any amendment or protocol to the Convention that has come into force and has been accepted by the Government, a copy of the English text of which is set out in the Schedule;
For the purposes of this Act, a certificate signed by the Minister, stating that a country specified in the certificate (but not specified in any order made under subsection (1) which is in force) is, or was at a time specified in the certificate, a Convention country, is, upon mere production, prima facie evidence of that fact.