Statistics Act, 1999
R 385
Prohibition or Restriction of Certain Conventional Weapons Act, 2008 (Act No. 18 of 2008)Chapter 2 : Prohibitions or Restrictions, Offences and Penalties7. Incendiary weapons |
No person may—
| (a) | make the civilian population, individual civilians or civilian objects the object of attack by incendiary weapons; |
| (b) | make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by air-delivered incendiary weapons; |
| (c) | make any military objective located within a concentration of civilians the object of attack by means of incendiary weapons except when such military objective is clearly separated from the concentration of civilians and all feasible precautions are taken with a view to limiting the incendiary effects to the military objective and to avoiding, and in any event to minimising, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects; or |
| (d) | make forests or other kinds of plant cover the object of attack by incendiary weapons except when such natural elements are used to cover, conceal or camouflage combatants or other military objectives, or are themselves military objectives. |
