Cap. 392 Art. 12Schedule 1 Chemicals. Forfeiture upon conviction.

Any person in Malta who, or any Maltese citizen or permanent resident of Malta who, whether in Malta or not,

(a) produces, acquires, retains or uses a Schedule 1 chemical outside Malta unless such production, acquisition, retention or use takes place within the territory of another State Party to the Convention or is undertaken for the purposes of lawfully transporting such chemicals to another State Party; or

(b) exports or attempts to export, a Schedule 1 chemical other than to another State Party for research, medical, pharmaceutical or protective purposes; or

(c) owns or operates a facility which produces, acquires, retains or uses a Schedule 1 chemical, where the facility is not a prescribed single small scale facility, or a prescribed other facility, or a laboratory synthesising Schedule 1 chemicals for research, medical or pharmaceutical purpose in aggregate quantities of less than 100 grams per year, shall be guilty of an offence against this article and shall be liable, found to be in contravention of the provisions of this Act or of the Convention, shall be an automatic consequence to a conviction for any offence against any article of this Act.