2.
Definitions.- In this Act, unless the
context otherwise requires,-
(a) "article" means
(as respects standardisation and marking) any
substance, artificial or natural, or partly
artificial or partly natural, whether raw or
partly or wholly processed or manufactured;
(b) "Bureau" means
the Bureau of Indian Standards established under
section 3;
(c) "consumer" means
a consumer of any article or process;
(d) "covering" includes
any stopper, cask, bottle, vessel, box, crate,
cover, capsule, case, frame, wrapper, or other
container;
(e) "Executive Committee"
means the Executive Committee constituted under
sub-section (1) of section 4;
(f) "Fund" means
the Fund constituted under section 18;
(g) "Indian Standard"
means the standard (including any tentative
or provisional standard) established and published
by the Bureau, in relation to any article or
process indicative of the quality and specification
of such article or process and includes-
(i) any standard recognised
by the Bureau under clause (b) of section 10;
and
(ii) any standard established
and published, or recognised, by the Indian
Standard Institution and which is in force immediately
before the date of establishment of the Bureau;
(h) "Indian Standards
Institution" means the Indian Standards
Institution set up the under the Resolution
of the Government of India in the late Department
of Industries and Supplies No.1 Std.(4) /45
dates the 3rd day of September, 1946, and registered
under the Societies Registration Act, 1860(21
of 1860);
(i) "inspecting officer"
means an inspecting officer appointed under
section 25;
(j) "licence" means
a licence granted under section 15 to use the
Indian Standards Certification Mark in relation
any article or process which conforms to the
Indian Standard and includes any licence granted
under the Indian Standards institution (Certification
Marks) Act, 1952(30 of 1952), and is in force
immediately before the date of establishment
of the Bureau;
(k) "manufacture"
means the manufacturer of any article or process;
(l) "mark" includes
a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, pictorial
representation, name; signature, word letter
or numeral or any combination thereof;
(m) "member" means
a member of the Bureau;
(n) "prescribed"
means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
(o) "process" includes
any practice treatment and mode of manufactured
of any article;
(p) "registering authority"
means any authority competent under any law
for the time being in force to register any
company, firm or other body of persons, or any
trade mark or design or to grant a patent;
(q) "regulations"
means regulation made by the Bureau under this
Act;
(r) "rules' means rules
made by the Central Government under this Act;
(s) "specification"
means a description of an article or process
as far as practicable by reference to its nature,
quality, strength purity, composition, quantity,
dimensions, weight, grade, durability, origin,
age material mode of manufacture or other characteristics
to distinguish it from any other article to
process;
(t) "Standard Mark’'
means the Bureau of Indian Standards Certification
Mark specified by the Bureau of represent a
particular Indian Standard; and also includes
any Indian Standards Institution Certification
Mark specified by the Indian Standards Institution;
(u) "trade mark"
means a mark used or proposed to be used in
relation to goods the purpose of indicating
or so as to indicate, a connection in the course
of trade between the goods and some person having
the right, either as proprietor or as registered
user, to use the mark whether with without any
indication of the identity of that person;
(v) an article is said to
be marked with a Standard Mark if the article
itself is marked with a Standard Mark or any
covering containing, or label attached to such
article is so marked.
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