Standards Act, 2008 (Act No. 8 of 2008) Regulations Regulations for the Control over the Use or Application of Codes of Practice 1. Definitions

 

In these regulations unless the context indicates otherwise—

 

"the Act"

shall mean the Standards Act, 1993 (Act No. 29 of 1993);

 

"accreditation"

shall mean a procedure by which the SABS gives formal recognition that a body is competent to carry out specific activities;

 

"assessment"

shall means evaluation of the level of effectiveness obtaining in regard to the execution of an act;

 

"audit"

shall mean inspection to verify adherence to an approved level of effectiveness;

 

"certification"

shall mean a procedure by which the SABS certifies that a process or service conforms to specified requirements;

 

"commodity"

shall include a range or group of commodities;

 

"register"

shall mean a list of suppliers provided for in regulation 4, and when used as a verb shall be deemed to be the act of registration;

 

"registered supplier"

shall mean a supplier who has been registered by the SABS in terms of regulation 4;

 

"registration"

shall mean the procedure by which the SABS indicates relevant characteristics of a process or service, or particulars of a body or person in an appropriate publicly available list;

 

"registration certificate"

shall mean a certificate issued in terms of regulation 6;

 

"registration mark"

shall mean a mark that has been established in terms of regulation 5.2, that may be used in manner authorized by regulation 5;

 

"registration scheme"

shall mean an accreditation or certification scheme established under regulation 3 and includes such a scheme as amended under regulation 3.1;

 

"specified"

means specified in terms of these regulations;

 

"supplier"

shall mean a person or body who executes an act in accordance with a code of practice with a view to achieving a stated purpose or obtaining a stated result, and shall include a manufacturer,

 

and any expression to which a meaning is assigned in the Act shall have the same meaning in these regulations.