Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 43. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires "accreditation" means the recognition by the Board, that a laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or person required to conduct conformity assessments is competent to carry out or perform the tests and activities which are specified in the Certificate issued with respect to such laboratory, certification or inspection body, training institution or person, as the case may be; "Accreditation Mark" means a mark prescribed by regulations made under this Act; "Certificate" means a Certificate of Accreditation issued by the Board under section 18; "conformity assessment " means the determination directly or indirectly that any process, system, commodity, product or service conforms to the standards and other technical requirements (including requirements relating to manufacture, production, processing or treatment) specified by, or under, any written law, with respect to such process, system, commodity, product or service; "local authority" means a Municipal Council, Urban Council or Pradeshiya Sabha and includes any authority created or established by or under any law, to exercise, perform and discharge, powers, duties and functions corresponding to, or similar to the powers, duties and functions exercised, performed and discharged by any such Council or Sabha; "person" includes a body of persons; "prescribed" means prescribed by regulations made under this Act; "Provincial Council" means a Provincial Council established under Chapter XVIIA of the Constitution. |