Act Number: 63

Act Name: The Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986

Year: 1986

Enactment Date: 1986-12-23

Long Title: An Act to provide for the establishment of a Bureau for the harmonious development of the activities of standardisation, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Ministry: Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

Department: Department of Consumer Affairs

Section 31: Members, officers and employees of the Bureau to be public servants.
All members, officers and other employees of the Bureau shall be deemed, when acting or purporting to act in pursuance of any of the provisions of this Act, to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860).
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