Ordinance
on War Materiel
(War Materiel Ordinance, WMO)

1 Re­cords must be main­tained on the man­u­fac­ture, pur­chase, sale, or broker­age of or any oth­er form of trade in war ma­ter­i­el, as well as con­tracts entered in­to in terms of Art­icle 20 WMA. The re­cords must at all times dis­close:

a.

the entries, exits and stocks of war ma­ter­i­el;

b.

the names and ad­dresses of sup­pli­ers, pur­chasers and con­trac­tu­al parties;

c.

the data and sub­ject mat­ter of com­mer­cial trans­ac­tions.

2 The fol­low­ing doc­u­ments must be avail­able for in­spec­tion for a peri­od of ten years in or­der to sub­stan­ti­ate re­cords:

a.

in­voices from sup­pli­ers;

b.

cop­ies of in­voices ad­dressed to pur­chasers and con­trac­tu­al parties; where pay­ment is made in cash, re­ceipts for the goods signed by the pur­chasers;

c.

con­tracts re­lat­ing to trans­ac­tions re­lat­ing to in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty in­clud­ing know-how per­tain­ing to war ma­ter­i­el.

d.⁵⁴

Trans­port doc­u­ments with de­tails of the trans­it states.