{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/3231",
  "legislation_title": "The Export Control Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/export-control-order-2008",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Inspection of records",
  "text": "(1) A person (“a relevant person”) who is required under article 29 ... of this Order, or Article 20(1) or (2) (record-keeping) of the assimilated dual-use Regulation or Article 27(1) or (2) (record-keeping) of the EU dual-use Regulation to keep registers, records or documents (“compulsory records”) shall permit those compulsory records to be inspected and copied by a person authorised by the Secretary of State or the Commissioners.\n(2) A person authorised by the Secretary of State or the Commissioners who produces, if required to do so, a duly authenticated document showing their authority, shall have the right at any reasonable hour to enter for the purpose of paragraph (1)—\n(a) in the case of compulsory records required to be kept under article 29 ... of this Order, the premises the address of which has been most recently notified to the Secretary of State under article 28 in relation to the records; or\n(b) in the case of compulsory records required to be kept under Article 20(1) or (2) (record-keeping) of the assimilated dual-use Regulation or Article 27(1) or (2) (record-keeping) of the EU dual-use Regulation, the premises the address of which has been most recently notified to the Secretary of State under article 28 in relation to the records or, if none, such other premises the address of which has been notified for this purpose.\n(3) Where a relevant person keeps compulsory records in a form which is not legible, the relevant person shall at the request of a person authorised by the Secretary of State or the Commissioners reproduce the relevant records in a legible form.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(1) omitted (22.2.2017) by virtue of The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/85), arts. 1, 2(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(1) substituted (7.12.2022) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1300), regs. 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in art. 31(1) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 4(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(2)(a) omitted (22.2.2017) by virtue of The Export Control (Amendment) Order 2017 (S.I. 2017/85), arts. 1, 2(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(2)(b) substituted (27.8.2009) by The Export Control (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/2151), art. 1, Sch. para. 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 31(2)(b) substituted (7.12.2022) by The Export Control (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1300), regs. 1(1), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in art. 31(2)(b) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 6 para. 4(2)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/3231/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:20:03.100935+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}