The Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority Act, 1996

Current legal status not independently verified. Source: Pakistan Code (single official PDF, 2026-08-21). The text below is the official Pakistan Code text as retrieved; whether it is still in force, or has since been amended or repealed, has not been independently checked.

WHEREAS it is expedient to establish a Pakistan Standards and Quality Control Authority to provide for the standardization and quality control services ; It is hereby enacted as follows:— CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY

• Section 1: Short title, extent and commencement
• Section 2: Definitions
• Section 3: Constitution of the Authority
• Section 4: Management
• Section 5: Constitution of the Board
• Section 6: Advisory Council
• Section 7: Director­General
• Section 8: Powers and functions of the Authority
• Section 9: Authentication of orders and other instruments of the Authority
• Section 10: Prohibition of improper use of Authority marks
• Section 11: Prohibition of use of certain names, etc
• Section 12: Prohibition of registration in certain cases
• Section 13: Power to prohibit or restrict export of certain articles
• Section 14: Power to prohibit, manufacture, keeping in stock and sale of certain articles
• Section 15: Inspectors
• Section 16: Power to obtain information, etc
• Section 17: Powers of Authority to other bodies, etc
• Section 18: Appeals
• Section 19: Certain matters to be kept confidential
• Section 20: Penalty for improper use of Authority marks, etc
• Section 21: Penalty for contravention of section 13
• Section 22: Penalty for other contraventions
• Section 23: Cognizance of offences by courts
• Section 24: Protection of action taken under this Act
• Section 25: Power to exempt
• Section 26: Power to make rules
• Section 27: Power to make regulations
• Section 28: Appointment of officers, servants, etc., by the Authority
• Section 29: Appointment of officers, servants etc., by the Director­General in cases of urgency
• Section 30: Members and officers etc. to be public servants
• Section 31: Delegation of powers to the Director­General etc
• Section 32: Funds
• Section 33: Budget
• Section 34: Audit and Accounts
• Section 35: Save, as provided in the rules or regulations, the Deputy Director­General ( Finance) of the
• Section 36: Submission of yearly reports and returns
• Section 37: Dissolution of the department of Central testing laboratories and the Pakistan
• Section 38: Removal of difficulties
• Section 39: Repeal