This Act establishes the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications of South Africa and provides for the appointment of the Board of the National Regulator, defines their functions and powers and provides for the declaration and administration compulsory specifications. The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Board, in respect of any commodity, product or service which may affect public safety, health or the environment, declare a South African National Standard approved by the South African Bureau of Standards in accordance with the Standards Act, 2008 to be a compulsory specification. The effect of the declaration is that no person may import, sell or supply a commodity, product or service to which a compulsory specification applies, except in accordance with that specification and only if that commodity, product or service complies with, or has been manufactured in accordance with, the compulsory specification.
South Africa · 2008-07-01