Definitions
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,-
(a) “article” means any substance, artificial or natural, or partly artificial or partly natural, whether raw or partly or wholly processed or manufactured;
(b) “Bangladesh Standard” means the national standard of Bangladesh established and published by the Institution, in relation to any article or process, indicative of the quality and specification of such article or process, and includes-
(i) any provisional standard, or
(ii) any [international] standard adopted by the Institution;
(c) “calibration” means quantitative determination of the errors of a measuring device and, where necessary, adjusting of these errors to a minimum;
(d) “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Council;
(e) “Council” means the Council of the Institution constituted under section 7;
(f) “covering” includes any stopper, cask bottle, vessel, box, crate, cover, capsule, case, frame, wrapper or other container;
(g) “Director General” means Director General of the Institution;
(h) “Inspector” means an Inspector appointed under [Section 25 and includes any officer of the Institute authorised by the Director General to act as Inspector];
(i) “grading” means classification of a material in conformity with a set standard;
(j) “Institution” means the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution established under section 3;
[(jj) “label” means the display of written, printed or graphic matter on any product, its container, tag or literature of the product or other suitable material affixed thereto for the purpose of giving information as to the identity, components, ingredients, attributes, direction for use, specifications (including weights or quantity), date of manufacturing or expiry;]
(k) “licence” means a licence granted under section 20 to use the Standard Mark in relation to any article or process which conforms to the Bangladesh Standard;
(l) “mark” includes a device, brand, heading, label, ticket, pictorial representation, name, signature, word, letter or numeral or any combination thereof;
(m) “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under section 37;
(n) “process” includes any practice, treatment and mode of manufacture of any article;
(o) “registering authority” means any authority competent under any law for the time being in force to register any company, firm, or other body of persons, or any trade mark or design, or to grant a patent;
(p) “simplification” means reduction of unnecessary sizes and varieties of a material;
(q) “specification” means a description of an article or process as far as practicable by reference to its nature, quality, strength, purity, composition, quantity, dimensions, weight, grade, durability, origin, age, material, mode of manufacture or other characteristics to distinguish it from any other article or process;
(r) “Standard Mark” means the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution Certification Mark specified by the Institution to represent a particular Bangladesh Standard;
(s) “Standardisation” means setting up of standards;
(t) “test report” means certificate of test in respect of quality or grade of a material;
(u) “trade mark” means a mark used, or proposed to be used, in relation to goods for the purpose of indicating, or so as to indicate, a connection in the course of trade between the goods and some persons having the right, either as proprietor or as registered user, to use the mark whether with or without any indication of the identity of that person.
(2) An article is said to be marked with a Standard Mark if the article itself is marked with Standard Mark, or any covering containing, or label attached to, such article is so marked.