In these regulations unless the context indicates otherwise—

"the Act"

shall mean the Standards Act, 1993 (Act No. 29 of 1993);

"accreditation"

shall mean a procedure by which the SABS gives formal recognition that a body is competent to carry out specific activities;

"assessment"

shall means evaluation of the level of effectiveness obtaining in regard to the execution of an act;

"audit"

shall mean inspection to verify adherence to an approved level of effectiveness;

"certification"

shall mean a procedure by which the SABS certifies that a process or service conforms to specified requirements;

"commodity"

shall include a range or group of commodities;

"register"

shall mean a list of suppliers provided for in regulation 4, and when used as a verb shall be deemed to be the act of registration;

"registered supplier"

shall mean a supplier who has been registered by the SABS in terms of regulation 4;

"registration"

shall mean the procedure by which the SABS indicates relevant characteristics of a process or service, or particulars of a body or person in an appropriate publicly available list;

"registration certificate"

shall mean a certificate issued in terms of regulation 6;

"registration mark"

shall mean a mark that has been established in terms of regulation 5.2, that may be used in manner authorized by regulation 5;

"registration scheme"

shall mean an accreditation or certification scheme established under regulation 3 and includes such a scheme as amended under regulation 3.1;

"specified"

means specified in terms of these regulations;

"supplier"

shall mean a person or body who executes an act in accordance with a code of practice with a view to achieving a stated purpose or obtaining a stated result, and shall include a manufacturer,

and any expression to which a meaning is assigned in the Act shall have the same meaning in these regulations.