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Jamaica. 2016 ‘Marking.’ National Report of Jamaica on its Implementation of the United Nations Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects (UNPoA) and the International Tracing Instrument (ITI); Section 7, p. 5. New York, NY: Permanent Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations. 11 April

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Marking

14. Does your country take measures to ensure that all SALW in the possession of government armed and security forces for their own use are duly marked? YES

14.1. Describe the markings that are applied to government held stocks.
Government held firearms are currently inscribed with an alphanumeric code (developed from the UNLIREC Firearm Marking Guidelines) which represents the Make, Model, Country of Import, Importer Identifier (where applicable), End-User Identifier, and Year of Import.

14.2. When government stocks are transferred to civilians or private companies in your territory, are such stocks marked to indicate that your government transferred the stocks? NO

15. Does your country encourage manufacturers of SALW to develop measures against the removal or alteration of markings? NO

[SALW = Small Arms and Light Weapons]

ID: Q11862

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