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Sri Lanka Standards Institution Act (No. 6 of 1984) - Sect 19

Certification marks not to be applied to commodities or products unless authorized by permits, and otherwise than in accordance with this section

19.
(1) Whenever the Institution has published any notice under subsection (1) of section 17, no person shall apply the certification mark mentioned in that notice to any commodity or product
(a) except under the authority of a permit issued by the Institution or a person authorized in that behalf by the Institution; and
(b) unless that commodity or product complies with the relevant standard specification or has been manufactured, produced, processed or treated in accordance with that standard specification.
(2) Any person who -
(a) applies a certification mark to any receptacle or covering of any commodity or product or any label attached to any commodity or product or attached to any receptacle or covering thereof; or
(b) places or encloses any commodity or product in a receptacle or covering to which any certification mark has been applied or in a receptacle or covering to which is attached a label to which any such mark has been applied; or
(c) makes, in connection with the sale of any commodity or product, any reference, directly or indirectly, to a certification mark in a manner or under circumstances calculated to convey the impression that the commodity or product complies with the standard specification to which the certification mark relates, or that it has been manufactured, produced, processed or treated in accordance with that standard specification,
(3) No person shall in connection with the sale of any commodity or product make any reference directly or indirectly to the Institution or to a standard specification approved, or purporting to have been approved, by the Institution unless -
(a) the Institution has declared any mark to be a certification mark in respect of the standard specification framed by the Institution for any commodity or product or for the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of that commodity or product; and
(b) such person is in possession of a permit issued by the Institution authorizing him to apply such certification mark to that commodity or product.

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