The Division Councils, sectional committees and sub - committees shall be reconstituted once every three years:
Provided that the tenure of panels and working groups shall be as decided by the concerned Division Council under which they were constituted.
(2) Division Councils shall be constituted in defined areas of industries, technologies, services and other subjects and shall comprise of concerned officers of the Bureau and representatives of various interests such as consumers, regulatory and other Government bodies, industry, testing laboratories or calibration laboratories, scientists and technologists and an officer of the Bureau shall be the Member Secretary.
(3) The Division Council shall. -
(i) advise on the subject areas to be taken up for formulation of Indian Standards in their respective areas keeping in view the national needs and priorities;
(ii) approve proposals for work and determine the priority to be assigned to the work;
(iii) direct the sectional committees concerned to undertake the work of formulation of standards;
(iv) advise on matters relating to research and development needed for the establishment of Indian Standards or their revisions ;
(v) study the work of international organisations and their committees in standards formulation related to the area of work of the Division Council and recommend on the extent and manner of participation in standardisation activities at the international level;
(vi) advise on implementation of established standards and promotion of Indian Standards;
(vii) receive and deal with activity reports and to make recommendations thereon to the Governing Council concerning matters in which the decision of the Governing Council is necessary;
(viii) carry out such tasks as may be specifically referred to it by the Governing Council or the Standards Advisory Committee constituted under clause (c) of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Act.