Bureau of Indian Standards Act

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THE BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS ACT, 2016 [Act No. 11 of 2016] [21st March, 2016] PREAMBLE An Act to provide for the establishment of a national standards body for the harmonious development of the activities of standardisation, conformity assessment and quality assurance of goods, articles, processes, systems and services and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-- (1) This Act may be called the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-- (1) "article" means any substance, artificial or natural, or partly artificial or partly natural, whether raw or partly or wholly processed or manufactured or handmade within India or imported into India; (2) "assaying and hallmarking centre" means a testing and marking centre recognised by the Bureau to determine the purity of precious metal articles and to apply hallmark on the precious metal articles in a manner as may be determined b