Singapore legislation
Regulation 29
of Building and Construction Authority (Importers’ Licensing) Regulations 2011
Regulation 29
Duties of authorised analyst
It shall be the duty of an authorised analyst —
to analyse, test and examine the quality of essential construction material with a view to evaluating the essential construction material for the purposes of section 31K(1) of the Act according to the relevant standard set by the Authority for that analysis, test or examination;
to only use equipment or facilities in a laboratory that is calibrated to ISO/IEC 17025 certification;
to ensure that his or its findings upon analysis, testing or examination are reliable and complete; and
in the case of an individual, to notify the Authority without delay if —
he ceases to hold any qualifications specified in the Second Schedule by which he obtained his designation as an authorised analyst;
the laboratory which has the ISO/IEC 17025 certification for the test, analysis or examination specified in regulation 23 withdraws any declaration of competency that it has given under regulation 28(1)(c)(ii) in respect of the individual or refuses or fails to renew that declaration of competency on the anniversary of the first such declaration; or
he ceases to use or have the use of a laboratory to carry out the analysis, test or examination for the evaluation of the acid soluble content, the chloride content or the alkali-silica reactivity of essential construction material, as the case may be, being a laboratory which has the ISO/IEC 17025 certification for the test, analysis or examination specified in regulation 23 for the relevant content.