Standards of Malaysia Act 1996 · Updated to 30 Apr 2012 · Part V · Standards and Accreditation
16. Accreditation certificates
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Any person desiring to be accredited as a conformity assessment body may apply to the Director General in the manner prescribed by regulations, or if no such regulations have been made, in such manner as may be determined by the Council.
conformity assessment
“conformity assessment” means an activity of testing, calibrating, inspecting, certifying or any other activity as the Director General may determine for the purpose of demonstrating that the specific requirements relating to a commodity, process, system, person, practice or service are fulfilled;
Where the Director General, after considering the application made under subsection (1), is satisfied that the criteria and procedures relating to accreditation are fulfilled, he may grant to the applicant an accreditation certificate as prescribed by regulations, or if no such regulations have been made, as may be determined by the Council.
Director General
“Director General” means the Director General of the Department of Standards appointed under section 9;
An accreditation or registration certificate under this section shall be granted for a period as specified by the Director General but so long as the terms and conditions of the accreditation certificate are complied with, the accreditation certificate may from time to time be renewed by the Director General for such periods as he may specify.
accreditation
“accreditation” means a procedure by which the Department gives attestation that a conformity assessment body is competent to carry out specific conformity assessment activity;
Every person who applies for an accreditation certificate under this section and every person to whom an accreditation certificate is so granted shall, if he is at any time required by the Director General to do so, submit—
for assessment or examination, all documents;
any information, relating to the operation in respect of which the accreditation certificate is applied for or has been granted.
For the purpose of accreditation under this section, there shall be payable to the Director General by the applicant or accreditation certificate holder, the prescribed accreditation fees and such other costs as may reasonably be incurred in connection with accreditation.
The Director General shall keep a register to record the details of every accreditation certificate granted under this section and the register shall be made available to the public.
The Director General may at any time suspend or revoke an accreditation certificate granted under this section if, in his opinion, any terms and conditions attached to the accreditation certificate have
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been breached, but an accreditation certificate holder whose accreditation certificate has been suspended or revoked may appeal to the Council.
Council
“Council” means the Malaysian Standards and Accreditation Council established under subsection 13(1);
Terms defined in s 2
accreditation
Defined · s 2“accreditation” means a procedure by which the Department gives attestation that a conformity assessment body is competent to carry out specific conformity assessment activity;
conformity assessment
Defined · s 2“conformity assessment” means an activity of testing, calibrating, inspecting, certifying or any other activity as the Director General may determine for the purpose of demonstrating that the specific requirements relating to a commodity, process, system, person, practice or service are fulfilled;
Council
Defined · s 2“Council” means the Malaysian Standards and Accreditation Council established under subsection 13(1);
Director General
Defined · s 2“Director General” means the Director General of the Department of Standards appointed under section 9;
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