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The Controller can open and inspect any container or package suspected of being imported, landed, or exported from Namibia in the absence of the importer or exporter, but must first attempt to locate and notify them to allow them the opportunity to be present during the inspection.

15. (1) The Controller may, subject to subsection (2), in the absence of the importer or exporter of any container or package imported into, landed in or exported from Namibia, or suspected by the Controller to have been so imported into, landed in or exported from Namibia, open and examine such container or package at the importers or exporters risk and expense.

(2) The Controller shall, before opening and examining any container or package in accordance with subsection (1), make all reasonable attempts to ascertain the whereabouts of the importer or exporter concerned and afford such importer or exporter the opportunity of himself or herself appearing before the Controller and opening such container or package.