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Fiji. 2016 ‘Record Keeping.’ National Report of the Republic of Fiji 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); Section 7, p. 13. New York NY: Permanent Mission of the Republic of Fiji to the United Nations. 13 September

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Section 7: Marking and Record Keeping

Record-keeping

20. Does your country have standards and procedures related to keeping of records for all marked SALW in its territory? YES

20.1. What records relating to SALW are kept by the State (e.g. manufacturing, brokering, import and export licenses granted, sales to other States, SALW held by State agencies such as the armed forces etc)?

[A]ll weapons records are kept in a central register by the military and police. The Commissioner of Police conducts an annual reconciliation exercise between the record of weapons in his possession and the owners of those weapons.
Under s (6)(8), "When any arms licence is granted by the Commissioner" "the particulars of the license" must be entered into a register kept at the police station.

Fiji currently has no industrial base for the manufacture of weapons, and as such keeps no records of manufacturing…

[SALW = Small Arms and Light Weapon]

ID: Q12400

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