Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 49. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-" code of practice " means a set of rules relating to the methods to be applied or the procedure to be adopted in connection with the construction, installation, testing, operation or use of any article, apparatus, instrument, device or process;" compulsory standard specification " means a specification which has been declared a compulsory standard specification under subsection (1) of section 19, and includes any such specification as amended under subsection (4) of the said section 19;"distinctive mark" means a mark which has been prescribed under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 19;" inspector" means an inspector appointed under section 28; " mark " includes any device, brand, heading, label, ticket, pictorial representation, name, signature, work, letter, numeral or any combination thereof;" sell" includes expose or offer for sale, or export for the purposes of sale, or have in possession for the purpose of sale or export or for any purpose of trade or manufacture;" specification " means a description of any commodity, by reference to its nature, quality, strength, purity, composition, quantity, dimensions, weight, grade, durability, origin, age or other characteristics, or of the material or substance from or with which or of the manner in which any commodity may be manufactured, produced, processed or treated;" standardization mark" means a mark which has under subsection (1) of section 16 been declared to be a standardization mark;" standard specification" means a specification, which is the subject of a notice under section 18, declaring any mark to be a standardization mark in respect of any commodity or of the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of any commodity. (1) The Chairman shall summon a meeting of the Council once in every three months. (2) The Chairman shall summon a special meeting of the Council within fourteen days after being requested in writing to do so by three members of the Council. (3) The Chairman shall give at least ten days' notice in writing of every meeting of the Council to each of the members, and shall specify in such notice the business to be dealt with at such meeting. (4) The Chairman, or in his absence the Vice-Chairman, shall preside at all meetings of the Council. (5) Four members shall form a quorum at any meeting of the Council. (6) All questions for decision by the Council shall be decided by the vote of the majority of the members present. In case of an equality of votes the presiding officer shall have a casting vote. (7) If at least four members of the Council are present in Ceylon, any question may be decided by the circulation of the relevant papers to the members present in Ceylon and by such members' recording in writing their views and their votes on that question; and in such case a report of such question, views and votes shall be made to the next meeting of the Council and shall be recorded in the minutes book, and, if there is an equality of such votes, such question shall be submitted for decision to a meeting of the Council. (8) The proceedings at every meeting of the Council shall be recorded in a minutes book. (9) Subject to the provisions herein, the Council may determine its own procedure. |