Very quickly, Mr. Chairman. It will save time, perhaps, because this is a recurring issue obviously with both the bill and the convention.
The legislation was specifically drafted with what lawyers would call a class closing rule in it. If you look at the way clause 11, in particular, has been drafted, apart from what is permitted as an exception to the prohibitions in clause 6, there are two other requirements. Number one, there has to be military cooperation and a person who's permitted to engage in that military cooperation, but the military cooperation has to be with at least one non-party state. The intention of this is that as more and more countries ratify the convention and join the convention, the permitted exclusions from the offences will become narrower and narrower. If every country ratifies it, there will be no exceptions under this bill except for the ones in clause 12 for defensive research and that sort of thing. If all of our allies ratify it, then the practical effect will be the same. The idea is to close this down, as Lieutenant-Colonel Penny said, as more and more countries renounce cluster munitions.