Bureau to declare Standards

(1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, the Bureau may declare any specification to be a standard or a Belize Standard. (2) No specification may be declared a standard and no standard may be varied or revoked unless the Bureau is satisfied that persons who may be affected thereby have had an opportunity to consider it and to comment thereon (3) The Bureau shall approve the declaration of a standard or a Belize Standard. (4) Where it is impracticable for the Bureau to formulate specifications, it may adopt any international or other specifications formulated elsewhere than in Belize. (5) The Bureau shall, (a) publish in the Gazette, in at least one newspaper circulating in Belize and in other 12 media, a notice of every declaration, variation or revocation of a standard; and (b) have available copies of every standard and any variations thereof.