Measure

Supervisors can check export processing zone enterprises by auditing records, counting goods, examining transactions, and reviewing security and storage conditions. They can also inspect goods and search people, vehicles, and packages entering or leaving the zone.

Supervision

2. The Commissioner, a Controller or any officer designated by the Commissioner, may supervise any transaction or procedure of or by an export processing zone enterprise in an export processing zone, which supervision may be performed by means of a periodic or an occasional -

(a) audit of the records;

(b) quantity count of the goods reflected in an inventory;

(c) examination of selected transactions or procedures;

(d) review of the record-keeping, security of conditions of storage in an export processing zone, of or by such export processing zone enterprise.

Authority to examine goods

3. An officer may, at any time after the admission of any goods to an export processing zone, examine such goods in accordance with section 4(4) of the Act, and shall in such examination be given the necessary assistance by the competent authority, which assistance shall include the opening, weighing or closing of any package or container.

Persons and conveyances subject to search

4.

(1) Any person entering, leaving, or finding himself or herself in an export processing zone, the vehicle of such person or any package or container such person may be conveying or may have in his or her possession, may be searched by an officer.

(2) For the purposes of subregulation (1), an officer may stop and board any vehicle referred to in that subregulation.