Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (Conformity Assessment) Regulations

Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Act

(Chapter 303A, Section 43)

Rg 2

G.N. No. S 25/2002

REVISED EDITION 2003

(31st January 2003)

[1st April 2002]

PART I

PRELIMINARY

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (Conformity Assessment) Regulations.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“alternate testing laboratory” means —

(a)	a testing laboratory or manufacturer’s testing laboratory that is recognised under the IECEE CB Scheme;
(b)	a testing laboratory that is recognised by a Foreign Recognition Body; or
(c)	a testing laboratory the test reports of which are agreed to be accepted by one or more CAB (Certification) or CAB (Testing) under an approved testing agreement;

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“approved testing agreement” means an agreement, approved by the Designating Authority, under which one or more CAB (Certification) or CAB (Testing) agree with the proprietor of a testing laboratory to accept test reports issued by that testing laboratory;

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“CAB” or “conformity assessment body” means a person that performs conformity assessment or any test relating to conformity assessment;

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“CAB (Certification)” means a person designated as such by the Designating Authority under regulation 7;

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“CAB (Certification — MRA)” means a person designated by a country other than Singapore to carry out any certification of any product for the purposes of an MRA to which both Singapore and that country are parties;

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“CAB (Testing)” means a person designated as such by the Designating Authority under regulation 7;

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“CAB (Testing — MRA)” means a person designated by a country other than Singapore to carry out any testing of any product for the purposes of an MRA to which both Singapore and that country are parties;

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“certificate of conformity” has the same meaning as in regulation 7(1) of the Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulations (Cap. 53, Rg 1);

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“country” includes a customs territory;

“Designating Authority” means the Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board established under section 3 of the Act;

“Foreign Recognition Body” means an entity in a country other than Singapore that is authorised under any of the following agreements or arrangements to recognise CABs, testing laboratories, or both on behalf of that country:

(a)	the Asia Pacific Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Agreement;
(b)	the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation Mutual Recognition Agreement;
(c)	an MRA to which both Singapore and that country are parties;

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“IEC” means the International Electrotechnical Commission;

“IECEE” means the International Electrotechnical Commission system for conformity testing and certification of Electrical Equipment;

“IECEE CB Scheme” means the scheme known as the International Electrotechnical Commission System of Conformity Assessment Schemes for Electrotechnical Equipment and Components Certification Bodies Scheme, administered by the IEC;

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“ISO” means the International Organisation for Standardisation;

“MRA” means —

(a)	a bilateral mutual recognition agreement or arrangement between Singapore and any other country; or
(b)	a multilateral mutual recognition agreement or arrangement between Singapore and 2 or more other countries.

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