Sri Lanka
Practice Relating to Rule 75. Riot Control Agents
Sri Lanka’s Chemical Weapons Convention Act (2007) states:
19. (1) Any person who –
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(g) uses any riot control agent as a method of warfare, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and be punished with imprisonment of either description for a period not exceeding twenty years and a fine not exceeding one million rupees.
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47. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires –
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“riot control agent” means any chemical not listed in a Schedule, which can produce rapidly in humans sensory irritation or disabling physical effects which disappear within a short time following termination of exposure.