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A cluster munition means a conventional munition that is designed to disperse or release explosive submunitions each weighing less than 20 kilograms and
(i) includes those explosive submunitions; but
(ii) does not include
- a mine; or
- a munition or submunition that is designed:
- to dispense flares, smoke, pyrotechnics, or chaff; or
- to produce electrical or electronic effects; or
- a munition that is designed exclusively for an air defence role; or
- a munition that, in order to avoid indiscriminate effects and the risks posed by unexploded submunitions, has all of the following characteristics:
- each munition contains fewer than 10 explosive submunitions:
- each explosive submunition weighs more than 4 kilograms:
- each explosive submunition is designed to detect and engage a single target object:
- each explosive submunition is equipped with an electronic self-destruction mechanism:
- each explosive submunition is equipped with an electronic self-deactivating feature. |
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