. (3) participates in military preparations for the use of chemical weapons, shall be sentenced for breach of the prohibition of chemical weapons to imprisonment for at least four months and at most six years. Section 9 – Breach of the prohibition of biological weapons (212/2008) A person who (1) uses a biological or a toxin weapon in a manner not referred to in sections 1 through 3 of this Chapter, (2) unlawfully prepares, transports or delivers a biological weapon or a toxin weapon, or (3) in violation of an international convention on the development, production and storage of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction (Treaties of Finland 15/1975) develops, prepares, otherwise procures, stores or possesses a biological weapon or a toxin weapon or weapons, devices or equipment for the dissemination of a biological weapon or a toxin weapon, shall be sentenced, unless the same or a more severe penalty for the act has been provided elsewhere in the law, for a breach of the prohibition of biological weapons to imprisonment for at least four months and at most six years. Section 9(a) – Torture (990/2009) (1) If a public official causes another strong physical or mental suffering (1) in order to get him or her or another person to confess or to provide information, (2) in order to punish him or her for something that he or she or some other person has done or is suspected of having done, (3) in order to frighten or coerce him or her or another person, or (4) on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, skin colour, language, gender, age, family relations, sexual orientation, inheritance, incapacity, state of health, religion, political opinion, political or vocational activity or other corresponding grounds, he or she shall be sentenced for torture to imprisonment for at least two and at most twelve years and in addition to removal from office. (2) Also a public official who explicitly or implicitly approves an act referred to in subsection 1 committed by a subordinate or by a person who otherwise is factually under his or her authority and supervision shall also be sentenced for torture. (3) An attempt is punishable. (4) The provisions in this section regarding public officials apply also to persons performing a public fiduciary function and to a person exercising public power and, with the exception of the sanction of removal from office, also to the employee of a public corporation and to a foreign public official.