51Registers—duty to ensure entries made

51 Registers—duty to ensure entries made (1) A person (the principal) who must keep a register for a regulated substance commits an offence if— (a) the principal, or an employee or agent of the principal, deals with the regulated substance; and (b) the principal fails to ensure that the details prescribed by regulation for the dealing are entered in the register prescribed by regulation as soon as practicable (but not later than 24 hours) after the dealing happens. (2) An offence against subsection (1) is a strict liability offence.