Section 5

prepare, frame, modify, or amend specifications and promulgate standard specifications; (aa), (ab), (ac), (ad) and (ac)

promote research in relation to specifications and provide for the examination and testing of commodities, processes, and practices, and for those purposes establish such laboratories and other facilities as it thinks fit;

make provision for the registration of standard marks and regulate their use;

collect and disseminate by any convenient means, including the publication of reports, pamphlets, booklets, journals, and other matters, information concerning standardization and related matters;

encourage and undertake educational work in connexion with standardization;

assist the Federal Government, the State Governments, the local authorities, and other public bodies in the preparation of any specification required by them;

develop and maintain a collection of library and museum materials concerning standardization and related matters;

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co-operate with the industrial sector, the Federal Government, the State Governments, the local authorities, and other public bodies or authorities with a view to securing the adoption of standards; (i) co-operate with any person, association zation outside Malawi

co-operate with any person, association, or organization outside Malaysia having similar functions as those of the Institute, with a view to furthering the effective performance of the functions of the Institute; (j) solicit and accept for the purposes of the any money, land or other

solicit and accept for the purposes of the Institute any money, land, or other property from any body of persons or organization by way of grant, subsidy, donation, gift, subscription, or otherwise, and where it accepts any such money, land, or other property, extend to the body of persons or organization such concessions or benefits as it thinks fit; c) become a member of or affiliated to national body concessions

become a member of or affiliated to any international body concerned with standardization and related matters;

adopt with or without modifications national or foreign service

adopt with or without modifications any international or foreign specification as suitable for use in Malaysia;

appoint agents in Malaysia or abroad for purposes as the Instituition

appoint agents in Malaysia or abroad for such purposes as the Institute may determine; (n) establish branch offices of the Institute in Malaysia (o) undertake tests

establish branch offices of the Institute in Malaysia; (o) undertake tests, investigations, and more such manner as the Institute may determine;

undertake tests, investigations, and researches in such manner as the Institute thinks advisable with the object of improving the technical processes and methods used in industry and of discovering processes and methods that may promote the expansion of existing industries, the development of new industries, or the better utilization of waste products;