Section 15

promote, encourage, undertake and coordinate industrial research for the purpose of developing existing industries or creating new ones, raising the standard of and creating new technical skills in industry;

promote standardisation in industry and trade with a view to improving the quality of commodities as well as industrial efficiency and productivity;

establish, accept or adopt and publish, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette, a standard and a code of practice to be known as the Singapore Standard and the Singapore Code of Practice in relation to an article or a process and may amend or revoke such standard and code of practice from time to time by notification in the Gazette;

specify, by notification in the Gazette, a Certification Mark which shall be of such design and contain such particulars as may be provided therein*; and at its discretion grant and renew licences for the use of the Certification Mark in respect of an article or a process which conforms to the Singapore Standard or any other standard and suspend or cancel such licences;* See G.N. No. S 107/74.(e)provide for a scheme of quality control of specified export commodities in the manner provided in section 17;

provide for any other scheme of quality control of other commodities in order to promote and improve the export trade of Singapore;

make such inspection and take such samples of any material or substance as may be necessary to ascertain whether an article or a process in relation to which the Certification Mark has been used conforms to the appropriate Singapore Standard or other standard;

inspect, examine or test materials, commodities, articles, processes and practices with a view to evaluating their quality, serviceability and other characteristics and report thereon, and for this purpose establish such laboratories and other facilities as the Institute may think fit;

develop, verify, calibrate, repair and service instruments and equipment and issue certificates to the effect that an instrument or equipment complies with the specifications applicable to it;

hold custody of physical standards and verify and certify such weights and measures and other quantities as may be specified by the Minister, and develop methods for the measurement of such weights, measures and other quantities;

undertake industrial research to adapt and modify existing technical skills to suit local conditions and to develop new products;

initiate and undertake or enter into contractual research projects with the Institute’s clients in pursuance of its functions under this Act;

act as consultants and provide assistance in industrial research to any industry and build up a staff of scientists, engineers, technicians, researchers, administrators and other officers to assist the Institute in carrying out its functions under this Act;

conduct such tests and provide such other engineering and technical services as may be required by any industry;

undertake the training of the personnel of the Institute and of other bodies or organisations in the fields covered by this Act and to arrange for the training of the personnel of the Institute with other local or overseas bodies or organisations;

advise the Government and industrial, commercial and trading organisations on scientific and technical matters;

become a member or affiliate of any international body, the objects of which are similar to those of the Institute and to liaise with any national and international body having such objects;

develop and maintain a technical information service and collect and disseminate by any convenient means (including the publication of reports, pamphlets, booklets, journals and other publications) scientific, technical and other information concerning matters pertaining to this Act and any regulations made thereunder;

prescribe and levy fees for the grant and renewal of licences under this Act;

prescribe and levy fees and charges for any of the purposes of this Act and any regulations made thereunder and recover any costs and expenses incurred as provided in such regulations;

exercise all functions and powers and perform all duties which, under any other written law, are or may be or become vested in the Institute or are delegated to the Institute; and

do all such matters and things as may be incidental to or consequential upon the exercise of its powers or the discharge of its duties under this Act or any regulations made thereunder.