Section 29: Adoption of other Standards as Indian Standards
BIS Rules 2018Central Rules · 2016
(1) The Bureau may, in relation to any goods, article, process, system or service, adopt any standard established by any other institution in India or outside India as an Indian Standard with necessary modifications, in accordance with the procedure laid down in rule 22:
Provided that any Indian Standard adopted by the erstwhile Indian Standards Institution and the Bureau of Indian Standards established under Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986) shall be deemed to have been adopted under the provisions of the Act or under these rules or the regulations made under section 39 of the Act.
(2) Standards so adopted as Indian Standards shall be notified by the Bureau in the Official Gazette.