The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, through the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, has issued the Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2024. This amendment seeks to modify certain provisions of the existing quality control order for aluminium products, aiming to enhance standards and regulatory effectiveness.
MINISTRY OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
(Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade)
ORDER
New Delhi, the 22nd March, 2024
S.O. 1512(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 (11 of 2016), the Central Government, after consulting the Bureau of Indian Standards, is of the opinion that it is necessary or expedient so to do in the public interest, hereby makes the following Order to amend the Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products (Quality Control) Order, 2023, namely: –
1. (1) This order may be called the Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2024.
(2) It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the official Gazette.
2. In the Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy Products (Quality Control) Order, 2023 herein after referred to as the said order, in Paragraph 1, for sub-paragraph (2), the following sub-paragraph shall be substituted, namely:-
“(2) It shall come into force with effect from the 26th September, 2024”;
3. In paragraph 2, of the said Order, for second and third provisos, the following provisos shall be substituted, namely:-
“Provided further that nothing in this order shall apply to small enterprises as defined under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (27 of 2006), until the 26th December, 2024:
“Provided also that nothing in this order shall apply to micro enterprises as defined under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (27 of 2006), until the 26th March, 2025:
Provided also that nothing in this Order shall apply to the goods or articles imported up to two hundred kilograms for the purpose of research and development by manufacturers of Aluminium products per year with the condition that; (a) such imported goods and articles shall not be sold commercially, and shall be disposed of as a scrap; and (b) the manufacturer shall maintain year-wise record of such imported goods or articles and furnish the same, if so desired by the Government authorities in its letter head duly signed by its authorized signatory.
[F. No. P-29026/7/2023-LEI]
SANJIV, Jt. Secy.
Note : The principal order was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide number S.O. 4241(E), dated the 25th September, 2023.
