S.L. 653.4 Art. 9Record keeping and inspection in relation to exporters.

(1) Exporters shall keep detailed registers or records of their exports. Such registers or records shall include in particular commercial documents such as invoices, manifests and transport and other dispatch documents, containing sufficient information to allow the following to be identified:

(a) the description of the military equipment;

(b) the quantity of the military equipment;

(c) the name and address of the exporter and of the consignee;

(d) in so far as it is known to that person, the end use of the military equipment and the name and address of the end-user.

(2) The records referred to in subregulation (1) shall be kept for at least three years from the end of the calendar year in which the export took place, and the person concerned shall permit any such records to be inspected and copied by any person authorized by the Minister.

(3) Any person authorized by the Minister may, on producing if required to do so a duly authenticated document showing his authority, at any reasonable hour enter, for the purpose of subregu1ation (2), the premises of which the address has most recently been notified to the Director under regulation 8.

(4) Where any documents or records referred to in subregulation (2) are kept in a form which is not legible the exporter shall at the request of the person authorized by the Minister, reproduce such documents or records in a legible form.