Commonwealth Countries Legislation 2005–2008

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1 Bill C‐61, An Act to Amend the Geneva Conventions Act, An Act to Incorporate the Canadian Red Cross Society and the Trade‐marks Act. Assented to on 22 June 2007, officially published on 20 February 2008 in the Canada Gazette, 142(4). Entered into force on 31 January 2008.

2 Law 23 (III)/2006 amending the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ratification) law of 2002.

3 Law No. 39(III) of 2007. A Law to Ratify the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and Relating to the Adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem (Protocol III) and Providing for Related Matters. Published in the Cyprus Official Gazette, Supplement I(III) on 2 November 2007. Entered into force on 2 November 2007.

4 Promulgation No. 52 of 2007. To Enable Effect to be Given to Certain Conventions done at Geneva on 12 August 1949 and to the Protocols Additional to those Conventions done at Geneva on 8 June 1977, and 8 December 2005, and for Related Purposes. Adopted on 13 December 2007 and officially published on 29 December 2007 in the Republic of Fiji Islands Government Gazette, 7(100). Entered into force on 1 January 2008.

5 Chemical Weapons’ Act 2005, published in Lesotho Government Gazette (Extraordinary), L.(62) of 9 June 2005, p. 583.

6 Act No. 26, International Criminal Court Act. Adopted on 9 November 2007. Entered into force 1 July 2008.

7 Biological Agents and Toxins Act 2005, No. 36 of 2005. An Act to prohibit or otherwise regulate the possession, use, import, transhipment, transfer, and transportation of biological agents, inactivated biological agents and toxins, to provide for safe practices in the handling of such biological agents and toxins, and to make a related amendment to the Infectious Diseases Act (Revised Edition, Chapter 137).

8 Act No. 55/2007. Adopted on 12 November 2007 and officially published in GN No.S6/2008. Entered into force on 15 January 2008.

9 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Adoption of and Additional Distinctive Emblem.

10 Act No. 50/2007. Adopted on 23 October 2007 and officially published in the Government Gazette Acts Supplement No. 54 on 21 December 2007. Entered into force on 30 January 2008.

11 Penal Code 1985, Amendment No. 51 of 2007. Adopted on 23 October 2007. Entered into force in January 2008.

12 An Act to Provide for the Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and use of Chemical Weapons and their Destruction and to Provide for Matters Connected Therewith or Incidental Thereto. Published on 23 November 2007 as a Supplement to Part II of the Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Adopted [certified] on 20 November 2007, entered into force on 15 April 2008.

13 Act No. 10/2007 South African Red Cross Society and Legal Protection of Certain Emblems Act, 2007. Adopted 9 August 2007. Published 16 August 2007, Government Gazette 506(30178). Entered into force 16 August 2007.

14 Act 8/2007 The Penal Code (Amendment) Act, 2007. Published in the Acts Supplement No. 4 to The Uganda Gazette C(43) on 17 August 2007. Date of adoption 20 July 2007. Date of entry into force 17 August 2007.

15 Weapons of Mass Destruction (Amendment) Ordinance 2005 [No. 38 of 2005], First Supplement to the Gibraltar Gazette, (3471) of 26 May 2005.

16 The Weapons of Mass Destruction Ordinance 2004 [Gibraltar]. An Ordinance to make provision for the purpose of prohibiting the development, production, acquisition and possession of certain weapons of mass destruction; implementing in Gibraltar the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction, signed at Washington, London and Moscow on 10 April 1972, and the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, signed at Paris on 13 January 1993; and for connected purposes, Second Supplement to the Gibraltar Gazette, (3437) of 4 November 2004 [Legal Notice No. 105 of 2004].