Polyethylene Material For Moulding And Extrusion (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2024

[04th January 2024]

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 so to do in the public interest, hereby makes the following order further to amend the Polyethylene Material for Moulding and Extrusion (Quality Control) Order, 2022, namely: -

Rule - 1.

(1)     This Order may be called the Polyethylene Material for Moulding and Extrusion (Quality Control) Amendment Order, 2024.

(2)     It shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

Rule - 2.

In the Polyethylene Material for Moulding and Extrusion (Quality Control) Order, 2022, in paragraph 1, in subparagraph (3), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: -

"Provided that, nothing in this Order shall apply to the following classes of polyethylene material for moulding and extrusion, namely:-

(a)      Low Density Polyethylene Extrusion (LDPE) Coating;

(b)      Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Film Grades (Blown/ Cast) or Pharma;

(c)      Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Butene Grades;

(d)      Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE) Hexene/ Octene Grades;

(e)      Metallocene Polyethylene Grades;

(f)       Base Resins of Power Cable, Jacketing and other applications; and

(g)      compounds for Cable Jacketing/ Sheathing/ Polyethylene-80 and Polyethylene-100 (Black and Pigmented)/ Reinforcement Fillers".