Mauritius Standards Bureau (National Management Systems Certification Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (GN No. 145 of 2009)

1. These regulations may be cited as the Mauritius Standards Bureau (National Management Systems Certification Scheme) (Amendment) Regulations 2009.

2. In these regulations - "principal regulations" means the Mauritius Standards Bureau (National Management Systems Certification Scheme) Regulations 2008.

3. The principal regulations are amended - (a) in regulation 2 - (i) by deleting the definition of "MS 133" and replacing it by the following definition - "MS 133" means the Mauritian Standard for Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) System declared under section 18 of the Act; (ii) in the definitions of "MS ISO 9001", "MS ISO 14001", "MS ISO 22000" and "MS ISO/IEC 27001", by deleting the word "established" and replacing it by the word "declared"; (iii) in the definition of "National Management Systems Certification Scheme" - (A) in paragraph (d), by deleting the comma and replacing it by a semi- colon; (B) by inserting, after paragraph (d), the following new paragraph - (e) the Mauritius Standards Bureau, National Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification Scheme (NOHSMSCS) relating to MS OHSAS 18001, (iv) by inserting, in the appropriate alphabetical order, the following new definition - "MS OHSAS 18001" means the Mauritian Standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems declared under section 18 of the Act; (b) in regulation 3, by deleting the words "and MS ISO 14001" and replacing them by the words ", MS ISO 14001 and MS OHSAS 18001"; (c) in regulation 4, by revoking paragraph (2); (d) in regulation 7 - (i) in paragraph (3), by inserting after the words "for a further period of 3 years", the words "subject to a recertification audit by the Bureau and"; (ii) by adding, after paragraph (5), the following new paragraph - (6) For the purposes of paragraph (3), a recertification audit shall be in the form of an assessment by the Bureau to evaluate and confirm the continued conformity and effectiveness of a management system as a whole. (e) in the First Schedule, by inserting after paragraph (4), the following new paragraph - (5) The National Occupational Health and Safety Management System Certification Scheme