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Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1975
Part IX
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Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1975

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IPreliminary

1(1) This Act may be cited as the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act, 1975, and shall apply through...
2In this Act unless the context otherwise requires— "Accreditation" "Chairman" and "D

IIThe Institute

3There is hereby established an institute which shall be known as the Standards and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia and which may...
4The functions of the Institute are—
5The Institute may do all such things as are reasonably necessary or expedient for, or as are incidental to or consequential upon, the disch...

IIIThe Council

6For the purpose of carrying out the functions and exercising the powers and directing and managing the affairs of the Institute, there is h...
7(1) The Council shall consist of the following members: (a) a Chairman;
8(1) Subject to section 9 (2), a member of the Council appointed under paragraphs (a) to (l) of section 7 (1), other than the Controller, sh...
9(1) A member of the Council who is not a public officer, other than the Controller, may at any time resign his office by written notice add...
10The following persons shall be disqualified from being appointed or being members of the Council:
11A member of the Council, other than the Controller shall be deemed to have vacated his office-
12(1) The Council shall meet as often and at such times and places as the Chairman may determine but there shall be at least two meetings a y...
13The Minister may give to the Council directions of a general nature not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as to the exercise of...
14The Council shall furnish the Minister with such information relating to its activities as he may from time to time require.
15The seal of the Council shall be authenticated by the Chairman or the Deputy Chairman and one other member of the Council; and any document...
16(1) There shall be a Controller of the Institute who shall be appointed by the Minister.

Part IV

17The Council may from time to time appoint and employ on such terms and conditions of service as may be determined by the Council with the a...
18The Council may with the approval of the Minister make provision for the granting of loans to the Controller, Directors, officers, and empl...

VAdministration

19(1) The Council shall appoint an Executive Committee which— (a) shall consist of the Chairman
20(1) Subject to subsection (2) and to such limitations or conditions as it may think fit, the Council may delegate any of its functions or p...
21(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Council may make rules for the better carrying into effect of the purposes and provisions of th...

VIFinance and Report

22The fund
23Subject to the terms of any trust or endowment, moneys belonging to the Institute and available for investment may be invested in accordanc...
24With the prior consent in writing of the Minister of Finance, the Council may borrow money from the Government or from any person and, for...
25(1) Before the beginning of July of each year the Council shall submit to the Minister an estimate of its expenses, including those for dev...
26(1) The Council shall keep proper accounts and other records in respect of its operations, and shall prepare statements of account in respe...
27(1) The Council shall, not later than the 30th June of each year, cause to be made and transmitted to the Minister a report dealing with th...

VIIStandards

28(1) The Council may declare any specification, including any international or foreign specification that it has adopted with or without mod...
29(1) The Council may apply to the Registrar of Trade Marks for the registration of any mark as a certification trade mark under section 75 o...
30(1) Any person desiring to use any standard mark in connexion with any commodity, process, or practice may make application to the Council...
31(1) The copyright in every standard specification shall vest in the Council for a period of fifty years from the date when the specificatio...
32Minister
33(1) Except with the consent of the Minister, no body of persons, corporate or incorporate, shall exercise the functions for which it is for...
34Any person who—
34Aor during the suspension. AAB56. % or certificate AAB56.
35Where any written law confers power to prescribe or define, whether by subsidiary legislation or otherwise, any characteristics of any comm...
36(1) In any written law a standard specification may, without prejudice to any other mode of citation, be cited by the title or number given...
37Protective provisions.

VIIISupplemental

38The Council may from time to time fix the fees to be charged in respect of any research investigation, test, advice, or other services that...
39(1) The property in every discovery or invention of and improvement in any process, apparatus, and machine made by an officer or employee o...
40All members of the Council and the committees appointed under section 19, the Controller and Directors, and all officers and employees of t...
40A
41(1) Except for the purposes of this Act or of any criminal proceedings under this Act, a member of the Council or a committee appointed und...

IXRepeal and Transitional Provisions

43All powers, rights, privileges, duties, or obligations that immediately before the commencement of this Act were those of a dissolved body...
44(1) All lands that immediately before the commencement of this Act were vested in, or reserved under any written law relating to land for t...
45All deeds, bonds, agreements, instruments, and working arrangements subsisting immediately before the commencement of this Act and affectin...
46(1) Neither the repeal under section 42 nor anything contained in this Act shall affect the liability of any person to be punished or prose...
47All moneys standing in, or due to be paid to, the fund of a dissolved body shall on the commencement of this Act be transferred to the fund...
48Every person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was employed as an officer or servant of a dissolved body shall on that co...
49(1) All specifications declared to be standard specifications under section 19 of the Standards Act, 1966 and subsisting as standard specif...
50(1) If any difficulty arises in connexion with the transitional provisions contained in this Part, the Minister may, subject to subsection...

Standard and Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1975 · As enacted · Part IX · Repeal and Transitional Provisions

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All powers, rights, privileges, duties, or obligations that immediately before the commencement of this Act were those of a dissolved body shall devolve as from that commencement on the Institute and the Council.

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