2A. State Governments to recognise a laboratory as an appropriate Laboratory .– (1) For the purpose of obtaining recognition as an appropriate laboratory, the applicant shall send application, in triplicate, in the proforma prescribed by the Bureau of Indian Standards with the relevant details to the Department concerned with the consumer protection work in the State Government. (2) The State Government on receiving the application from the applicant, shall forward its two copies to the Bureau of Indian Standards to assess the suitability of the laboratory from the standards prescribed by them (Bureau of Indian Standards). The fee charged by the Bureau of Indian Standards, for this purpose, shall be paid by the applicant. (3) The State Government on receiving the recommendations and approval of the Bureau of Indian Standards, shall notify that laboratory as an “appropriate laboratory" for the purpose of Consumer Protection Act, 1986 for a period of three years. | 
