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Sri Lanka Accreditation Board for Conformity Assessment Act (No. 32 of 2005) - Sect 18

Certificate and use of Accreditation Mark-

18.
(1) Where the Board grants accreditation to a laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or other person required to carry out conformity assessments, under section 17, it shall issue a Certificate signed by the Director, specifying the tests or other activities which such laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or person is accredited, to carry out or perform, and also permit such laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or person to use the prescribed Accreditation Mark, in the manner hereinafter set out.
(2) The Certificate issued under subsection (1), shall be prominently displayed in the -
(a) laboratory; or
(b) registered place of business of the certification or inspection body, training institution or person, as the case may be, of the institution to whom or the person to whom such Certificate has been issued.
(3)
(a) Subject to the provisions of the Intellectual Property Act, No. 36 of 2003, no person other than a laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or person, granted accreditation under section 17 shall use the prescribed Accreditation Mark.
(b) A laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or person may use the prescribed Accreditation Mark for so long only as the accreditation granted to it under section 17 is in force and only in relation to the tests and other specific activities it is accredited to carry out or perform under this section.


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