PART I | 1. This Act may be cited as the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research Act. |
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —| “article” means a substance, artificial or natural or partly artificial or partly natural, or whether raw or partly or wholly processed or manufactured; |
| “Board” means the Economic Development Board established under section 3 of the Economic Development Board Act [Cap. 85]; |
| “Certification Mark” means the certification mark of the Institute referred to in section 15(d); |
| “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Institute appointed under section 4; |
| “code of practice” means a standard which sets out the method of installation of an instrument, equipment or plant and the procedure to be followed for the efficient use and maintenance of the instrument, equipment or plant or any material, recommends precautions to be taken in making, using and maintaining the instrument, equipment, plant or material or specifies the measures or precautions to be taken in designing, planning and constructing the instrument, equipment or plant in order to ensure that the requirements laid down in respect of the design, plan and construction of the instrument, equipment or plant are complied with; |
| “industry” includes any trade, service industry and other related activities; |
| “inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 18; |
| “Institute” means the Singapore Institute of Standards and Industrial Research established under section 3; |
| “licence” means a licence granted or renewed by the Institute for the use of the Certification Mark; |
| “mark” includes any device, brand, heading, label, ticket, pictorial representation, name, signature, word, letter or numeral or any combination thereof; |
| “notified commodity” means any commodity which is specified as being subject to quality control prior to export as provided in section 17; |
| “other standard” means a standard other than a Singapore Standard; |
| “process” includes any practice, treatment and mode of manufacture of any article; |
| “quality control”, in relation to an export commodity, means the determination of the quality of that commodity (whether during the process of manufacture or production or at any time before export) by inspection, tests or otherwise, in order to ascertain whether the commodity satisfies the standard applicable to it as provided in section 17; |
| “registering authority” means any authority competent under any written law to register a company, firm or other body of persons, or a trade mark or design, or to grant a patent; |
| “Singapore Code of Practice” means a code of practice published by the Institute as provided in section 15(c); |
| “Singapore Standard” means a standard published by the Institute as provided in section 15(c); |
| “standard” means a specification or description of an article or process as far as practicable by reference to its nature, quality, strength, purity, com-position, quantity, dimensions, weight, grade, durability, origin, age, material, safety requirement, mode of manufacture or other characteristics or any combination of the same; |
| “trade mark” has the same meaning as in the Trade Marks Act [Cap. 332]. |
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