Sri Lanka Standards Institution Act 1984

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

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Once the institution publishes a notice about a certification mark, no person may apply that mark to a commodity or product without a permit. The commodity or product must also comply with the relevant standard specification or be made in line with it. The institution pays no tax on its income or profits and no stamp duty on its instruments. The minister may, with the finance minister's agreement, exempt the institution from customs duty on goods it imports or buys.

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Official translation, read from a scanFrom Department of Government Printing's scanned PDF, read by OCR; may contain errors

s 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Sri Lanka Standards

Institution Act, No. 6 of 1984.

Part I

WeraBlisument, OBJEcTS aND PowERs oF THE Sar Lanka StranpDarps LystrrvTion

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Part II

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Part IV

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Part V

General

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