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MAURITIUS 27
Manufacture
Marking
Analytical category International & regional agreements Current national legislative controls Conformity
manufacture or import. Such
information must permit
identification of country of
manufacture and manufacturer.
Manufacture
Record keeping
Analytical category International & regional agreements Current national legislative controls Conformity
What? submission
to authorities?
SADC Firearms Protocol Art. 5
(3) (e) and 9 (1)
State parties are required to
enact measures to ensure the
proper controls are exercised
over firearms manufacturing.
State Parties undertake to
establish agreed systems to
keep proper records of firearm
markings.
UN Programme of Action
Section II Art. 9
Requires ensuring that accurate
records are kept for as long as
possible on the manufacture of
small arms and light weapons.
Records should be maintained
and organised to ensure
accurate and prompt retrieval of
information.
UN Firearms Protocol Art. 7
Requires the maintenance of
records for not less than 10
years of information in relation to
firearms.
Firearms Act 1940
Art. 12 Dealers to keep registers
(1) (a) Every registered dealer in firearms shall
provide himself with and keep a register his
transactions in firearms and ammunition in the
prescribed form.
(b) Such registers shall be supplied by the
Commissioner of Police on payment of a prescribed
fee.
(2) Every entry shall be made within 24 hours after
the transaction to which it relates.
(3) (a) Every dealer in firearms shall, on demand,
allow any police officer not below the rank of
Sergeant, duly authorised in writing in that behalf
by the Commissioner of Police, to enter and
inspect all stock in hand, and shall on request by
such police officer produce for inspection the
register so required to be kept.
(b) Where a written authority is required by this
subsection, the authority shall be produced on
demand.
(4) Where a dealer in firearms sells ammunition to
the holder of a firearm licence, he shall record on
the verso of the firearm licence held by the
purchaser, the amount and type of ammunition
sold and shall initial such entry.
(5) Every dealer in firearms shall, on or before the
fifth day of each month, submit to the Commissioner
of Police a return showing the stock of
firearms and ammunition held by him at the end of
the preceding month.
(6) Any dealer in firearms who fails to comply with
this section, or knowingly makes any false entry in
the register required to be kept under subsection
(1) or in the return required to be submitted under
subsection (5), shall commit an offence and shall,
on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 3 months and to a fine not exceeding
500 rupees.
(7) Nothing in subsections (1) to (6) shall apply to
the sale of firearms or ammunition by auction in
accordance with a permit issued under section
10(2).
The national
provisions go some
way to meeting the
requirements laid out
in the regional and
international
agreement, however
they fall short on
keeping the records
for up to 10 years.