REGISTERED No. D. 221
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART II-Section 3—Sub-section (ii)
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 363] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1966/KARTIKA 13,1888
Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed
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MINISTRY OF COMMERCE
NOTIFICATIONS
New Delhi, the 4th November 1966
S.O. 3387.—Whereas the Central Government is of opinion that in exercise of the powers conferred by section ft of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963). automobile scares, components and ancillaries shall be 'subject to Quality control and inspection prior to export;
Ana whereas the Central Government has formulated the proposals specified below for the said purpose and has forwarded the same to the Export Inspection Council, as required by sub-rule (2; of rule 11 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Ruies, 1964
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said sub-rule, the Central Government publishes the sale' proposals for the information of the public likely to be affected thereby.
2. Notice is hereby given that any person desiring to' forward any objection or suggesion with respect to the said proposals may forward the same within thirty days of the date of publication of this notification to the Export Inspection Council. World Trade Centre 14/1-B, Ezra Street, (7th floor), Calcutta-1.
PROPOSALS
(1) To notify that automobile spares, components and ancillaries be subject
to quality control and inspection prior to export;
(2) To specify the type of quality control and inspection in accordance with the draft Export of Automobile Spares, Components and Ancillaries (Quality Control and Inspection) Rules, 1967 set out in Annexure I
I542 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART I I-to this notification as the type of quality control and inspection which would be applied to such automobile spares, components and ancil- laries;
(3) To recognise-—
(a) the contractual specifications as agreed upon between the buyer and
the seller, and
(b) in the absence of any contractual specifications, the specifications issued by the Indian Standards Institution for automobile spares, components and ancillaries as given in Annexure II tq, this notifi- cation, as the standard specifications for automobile spares, com- ponents and ancillarieg;
(4) To prohibit the export, in the course of international trade of such automobile spares, components and anclllarles unless the same are either accompanied by a certificate issued by any of the Export Inspec- tion Agencies established under section 7 of the Export (Quality Con- trol arid Inspection) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963), to the effect- that the automobile spares, components and ancillaries are export-worthy or are affixed with a seal or mark recognised by the Central Govern- ment under section 8 of the said Act, indicating that the automobile spares, components and ancillaries conform to either the contractual specifications or in the absence of ahy contractual specification, the Indian Standard specifications, specified in the said Annexure II.
3. Nothing in this notification shall apply to the export by land, sea or air of samples of automobile spares, components and ancillaries aforesaid not exceeding three in number to prospective buyers.
3. Definition.—tn this notification 'spares, components and ancillaries' shall mean any manufactured product used in automobiles, including that used as a replacement for the original product.
ANNEXURE I
Draft rules proposed to be made under section 17 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963).
1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These rules may be called the Export of Automobile Spares, Components and Ancillaries (Quality Control and Inspection) Rules, 1967.
(2) They shall come into force on 1st February, 1967.
2. Definition.—In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) 'Agency' means any one of the Export Inspection Agencies established at Cochin, Madras. Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi under section 7 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963).
(b) 'Spares, components and ancillaries' shall mean any manufactured pro- duct used in automobiles, including that used as a replacement for the original product.
3. Qaullty Control.—(1) The quality of the automobile spares, components and ancillaries shall be ensured by effecting the following controls, at different stages of manufacture, preservation and packing of such product, as given below;
(A) Manufacturing stage control.
(i) Bought out materials and components control.
(a) Purchase specifications shall be laid down by the manufacturer in- corporating the properties of materials/components to be used and the detailed dimensions• thereof with tolerances.
(b) The accepted consignments shall be either, accompanied by a supplier's test/inspection certificate corroborating the require- ments of the purchase specification, In which case occasional checks shall be conducted by the purchaser for a particular supplier to verify the correctness of the aforesaid test/inspection certificates, or, the purchased materials/components shnll be regularly inspected/tested either in a laboratory within the factory or in an outside laboratory/test house.
SEC. 8(ii)] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY !5 43(c) The sampling for inspection/test to be carried out, shall be based
on a recorded investigation.
(.d) After the inspection/test Is carried out, systematic methods shall be adopted in- segregating the accepted and rejected materials/ components separately, and in disposal of rejected materials/ components.
(e) Correct and adequate records in respect of above mentioned con-
trols shall be regularly and systematically maintained.
(ii) Process Control
(a) Detailed process specifications shall be laid down by the manu-
facturer for different processes of manufacture,
(b) Equipments, instrumentation and facilities shall be adequate to -
control the processes QS laid down in the process specifications. (c) Adequate records shall be maintained to ensure the possibility" of verifying the controls exercised during the process of manufac- ture, (iii) Product Control
(a) The manufacturers shall either have his own adequate testing facilities, or, shall have access to such testing facilities existing elsewhere to test the product as per the sepciflcations recognis- ed under section 6 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspec- tion) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963).
(b-) Sampling (wherever required) for testing shall be bascti on a
recorded investigation.
(c) The minimum levels of control that will be exercised on the nroduct
are given In the table below:
THE TABLE
Requirements
Reference
Lot size
Sample size
SI. No.
i Material . ' . . . £
One Each batch
i
i
itandard specifica- tion recognised for the purpose under J Bxport (Quality ( Control and Ins- pection) Act, 1963. J
2
3
4
D o. Do. Do.
Each Do. Do.
Do.
Each charge
5 6
D o.
D o. Do.
One Five No. Each
7 S
One
Do.
Each batch
Dimensions with tolerances Workumansip and finish Casting defects Grade of casting . . ' . Hardness for heat treated pans. Surface finish measurement (a) Adhesion "1 c , , (6) Thickness J f or Pa l a t cd Pa r ts
9
1 Do.
Each
(a) Insulation Resistance If?* ;_ (ft) High Voltage ^£™
IO
Each batch
3 Nos.
r Do.
(a) Tensile Strength test i j J ^L WAglingtest j r u b b.
Do.
D o.
Do.
Adhesion strength for rubber
II .
J 544 T HE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—(d) Correct and adequate records in respect 01 tests carried out snan bo regularly and systematically maintained.
(B) Preservation. Control
(a) A detailed specification shall be laid down by the manufacturer to safeguard the product from adverse effects of weather conditions. (b) The product shall be well preserved both during storage and during.
transit.
(C) Packing Control
(a) A specification shall be laid down for packing the aforesaid product. (b) The package shall be well finished and have a Rood presentabllity. ' (c) The inner contents of Ihc package shall be so packed as to withstand Drop Test, Rolling Test and Water Spraying Test U3 slven below:
(i) Drop Test
The package shall be dropped from a height of 125 cm once on the1 largest flat surface, once on the longest edge and once on any corner of its own and shall not cause damage to either itself or its contents,
(ii) Rolling Test
The package shall be subject to rolling on its sides either 6255 cm for- ward and 625 cm backward or 1250 cm in one direction only and. shall not cause any damage to either Itself or its contents.
(iii) Water Spraying,
The package shall be allowed to be exposed against a water spray equivalent to a normal sudden monsoon shower for five minutes and the contents inside shall not be affected.
(2) Inspection.—The' inspection of automobile spares, components and ancil- laries intended for export shall be carried out with a view to seeing that the above mentioned controls have been exercised at the relevant levels satisfactorily and the automobile spares, components and ancillaries conform to the standard: specifications applicable to it.
4, Procedure of Inspection.—(1) The exporter /manufacturer shall give intima- tion in writing to any one of the agencies recognised under section 7 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963) and submit along with such intimation a declaration that the consignment of automobile spares, components and ancillaries have been manufactured by exercising quality control measures as per controls referred to under rule 3 above-, and that the consignment conforms to the requirements of, the specifications recognised for this purpose.
(2) The exporter .'manufacturer shall also furnish to the agency the identifica- tion marks applied on the consignment.
(3) Every intimation and declaration under sub-rule (1) shall roach the office of the agency not less than fifteen days prior to the despatch of the consignment from the manufacturer's premises.
(4) On receipt of the intimation and declaration under sub-rule (1), the agency, on satisfying itself that during the process of manufacture the manufac- turer had exercised adequate qtiality controls to manufacture the automobile spares, components and ancillaries according to the controls mentioned in rule 3' above, shall, within three days of carrying out the inspection, issue ;i certificate declaring tho contignment of automobile spares, components and ancillaries asr export-worthy/not export-worthy.
5. Procedure for affixation of recognised mark,—The provisions of the Indian. Standards Institution (Certification Marks) Act., 1952 (36 of 1952), the Indian Standards Institution (Certification Marks) Rules, 1955 and the Indian Standadrs Institution (Certification Marks) Regulations, 1955, shall so far as may be, apply to the procedure of affixation of the recgonised mark or seal on automobile- spares, components and ancillaries prior to export and automobile spares^ com- ponents and ancillaries so marked shall not be subjected to any inspection under rule 4 of these rules.
SEC. 3(U)] THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY I5456. Place of Inspection.—Every inspection under these rules shall.be carried out at the premises of the manufacturer.
7. Inspection Fee.—Subject to a minimum of Rs. 20 for each consignment, a fee @ 20 paise per every hundred rupee of F.O.B. value of each such consignment shall be paid by the exporter,manufacturer to the inspection agency as inspec- tion fee under rule 4 of these rules.
8. Appeal.—fl) Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the inspection agency to issue a certificate under sub-rule (4) of rule 4 may, within ten days of the receipt of the communication of such refusal by him, prefer an appeal to a Panel of Experts, consisting of not less than three persons, that may be constitut- ed by the Central Government.
(2) The decision of the said panel of experts on such appeal shall be final
ANNEXURE II
INDIAN STANDARDS
IS : 2077—1962
1. Automobile electric horn relay . . . ..
IS : 1884—1961 Pt. I. 2. D o. horns part I DC vibratingftype
3. Do. do. Part II wind tone type
IS : 1884—1963 Rt. I I.
4. Automobile lamps . . . . . ..
IS : 1606—1960
IS : 2577—1963
5. Cartridge fuse links for automobiles . . • " .
IS : 2646—1964
6. Generators (dynamos) for automobiles
7. Ignition coils]j . . . . . . ..
IS : 2325—1963 IS : 1063—1963
8. Sparking plugs 14 mm
IS : 2081—1962J
9. Taper terminal cable connectors for automobile batteries.
IS : 2742—1964
10. Automobile brake lining ' .
11. General requirements for leaf springs for automobile
suspension . ..
. . ..
IS : 1135—1957
12. Helical springs for ^automobile suspension . .
I S: 2634—1964
13. Inlet and exhaust valves for internal combustion engines IS : 810—1957
14. Single cylinder fuel injection pumps . . ..
IS : 1543—1960
[No. "0(157)Exp.Insp/"6 ]
S.O. 3388.—In exercise of the powers conferred by section 7 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 (22 of 1963), the Central Govern- ment hereby recognises the following inspection agencies for quality control and pre-shipment inspection of automobile spares, components and ancillaries specified in the Schedule annexed to this notification for purposes of export, in granting the certificate under sub-rule (4) of rule 4 of the Export of Automobile Spares, Components and Ancillaries (Quality Control and Inspection) Rules, 1967, namely:
1. Export Inspection Agency, Cochin. 'Monohar Building', Mahatma
Gandhi Road, Ernakulam-1.
2. Export' Inspection Agency, Madras, 'World Trade Centre', 'Sire
Mansion', 123, Mount Road, Madras-6.
3. Export Inspection Agency, Calcutta, *World Trade Centre', 14/I-B, Ezra
Street (7th floor), Calcutta-1.
4. Expoit Inspection Agency, Bombay, 'Harchandrai House', 1st floor, 81,
Queen's Road, Bdmbay-2.
5. Export Inspection Agency, Delhi, C/O Director (Quality Control), Min-
istry of Commerce, 'Udyog Bhavan' (Room No. 116), New Delhi.
[No. 60(157) /Exp.Insp. /66. ] S.O. 3389.—Whereas the Central Government, in exercise of the powers con- ferred by section 8 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Act, 1963 (221 of 1963), proposes to recognise the Indian Standards Institution Certification Mark with respect to automobile spares, components and ancillaries for the pur-, pose of denoting that 'where automobile spares, components and ancillaries are
I546 ™E GAZETTE OF TNTMA EXTRAORDINARY \PAVT 11-Srr:. S(||>]affixed with such mark, they shall be deemed to be in conformity with the standard specification applicable thereto under clause (c) of section 6 of the aaid Act;
And whereas the Central Government has forwarded the aforesaid rroposal to the Export Inspection Council as required by sub-rule (2) of rule J1 of the Export (Quality Control and Inspection) Rule3. 1H64;
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the said sub-rule, the Central Government hereby publishes the said proposal for the information of the public likely to be affected thereby.
2. Notice is hereby given that any person desiring to forward any objection or suggestion with respect to the said proposal may forward the same within thirty days of the publication of this notification to the Export Inspection Coun- cil, World Trade Centre', 14/1-B, Ezra Street, (7th floor), Calcutta-1.
[tfo. 60(157)/Kxp.Inspye8.]
A. C BANKRJEE, Jt. Secy