British Standards are the standards produced by BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter ( and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body ( NSB ) for the UK ).

The BSI Group produces British Standards under the authority of the Charter, which lays down as one of the BSI's objectives to:

Formally, as per the 2002 Memorandum of Understanding between the BSI and the United Kingdom Government, British Standards are defined as:

British Standards are one of the formal exceptions made to the Restrictive Trade Practices Act.

§ 18 ( 5 ) of the Act specifies that agreements to comply with British Standards should be disregarded when deciding whether an agreement is a restriction upon trade.

The BSI Group as a whole does not produce British Standards, as standards work within the BSI is decentralized.

Following the move on harmonisation of the standard in Europe, some British Standards are gradually superseded or replaced by the relevant European Standards ( EN ).

BSI Group began in 1901 as the Engineering Standards Committee, led by James Mansergh, to standardise the number and type of steel sections, in order to make British manufacturers more efficient and competitive.

* BS 0 A standard for standards specifies Development, Structure and Drafting of British Standards themselves.

Copies of British Standards are sold at the BSI Online Shop or can be accessed via subscription to British Standards Online ( BSOL ).

Many British Standards ( BSs ) – as well as some of the European and International Standards that were adopted as British Standards ( BS EN, BS ISO ) – are also available in public and university libraries in the United Kingdom.

* Subscription information to receive British Standards Online

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Its name originates from the gin's popularity in India during the British Raj and the sapphire in question is the Star of Bombay on display at the Smithsonian Institution.

* British Standards Institution ( BSI ) – United Kingdom

The IEC held its inaugural meeting on 26 June 1906, following discussions between the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and others, which began at the 1900 Paris International Electrical Congress, and continued with Colonel R. E. B. Crompton playing a key role.

* 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded.

***** Orange Institution ( commonly named Orange Order ), a British Protestant organization whose members are known as Orangemen

In the context of customer service, standardisation refers to the process of developing an international standard that enables organizations to focus their attention on delivering excellence in customer service, whilst at the same time providing recognition of success through a third party organization, such as British Standards Institution ( BSI ).

French sources, closer to the original etymology, tend to define velin as from calf only, while the British Standards Institution defines parchment as made from the split skin of several species, and vellum from the unsplit skin.

* Beginning of the year – James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution ( d. 1829 )

* June 27 – James Smithson, British mineralogist and chemist, whose fortune eventually went to the United States of America and was used to initially fund the Smithsonian Institution ( b. 1764 )

* Britain: The British Standards Institution ( BSI ).

Skulls were collected, these were compared to known skulls at the Smithsonian Institution, American Museum of Natural History, and British Museum, and confirmed identification of a single species, the Asiatic Black Bear, showing no morphological difference between ' tree bear ' and ' ground bear.

After Lawrence's creditors had been paid, there was no money left, although a memorial exhibition at the British Institution raised £ 3, 000 which was given to his nieces.

In the UK, the British Standards Institution set standards for dishwashers.

In December 2006, the British Standards Institution ( BSI ) released an independent standard for BCP — BS 25999-1.

The 2008 book Exercising for Excellence, published by The British Standards Institution identified three types of exercises that can be employed when testing business continuity plans.

* British Standards Institution ( BSI )

The defining symbol of Gunnersbury is the 18-storey high BSI ( British Standards Institution ) building on Chiswick High Road.

Parenthetical referencing is recommended by both the British Standards Institution and the Modern Language Association.

The Institution of Electrical Engineers ( I. E. E., pronounced I-double-E or I-E-E ) was a British professional organisation of electronics, electrical, manufacturing, and Information Technology professionals, especially electrical engineers.

* BS 4280 ( 1968 ): Developed by the British Standards Institution

To close off loopholes pointed out by some critics, he became a Director of the Africa Institution for the Registration of Slaves through which he advocated a centralized registry, administered by the British government, which would furnish precise statistics on all slave births, deaths, and sale, so that " any unregistered black would be presumed free ".

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Probably more representative of British humour were the working class comedies Brassed Off ( 1996 ) and The Full Monty ( 1997 ).

A 1996 British Journal for the History of Science article cites James F. Donnelly for mentioning a 1839 reference to chemical engineering in relation to the production of sulfuric acid.

Notable violations of embassy extraterritoriality include repeated invasions of the British Embassy, Beijing ( 1967 ), the Iran hostage crisis ( 1979 – 1981 ), the Japanese embassy hostage crisis at the ambassador's residence in Lima, Peru ( 1996 ), the overrunning of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo, Egypt ( 2011 ).

* 1904 – Charles Oatley, British electrical engineer ( d. 1996 )

Sideline hit in a match Standard Athletic Club vs. British School of Paris ( 1996 )

* 1913 – Mary Leakey, British anthropologist ( d. 1996 )

* 1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

At the 1996 British Comedy Awards the show won Top Channel 4 Sitcom Award, McLynn took the Top TV Comedy Actress award.

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

Sir Harold ( Harry ) Walter Kroto, FRS ( born 7 October 1939 as Harold Walter Krotoschiner ), is a British chemist and one of the three recipients to share the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.

Manx pounds per US $ 1: 0. 6092 ( January 2000 ), 0. 6180 ( 1999 ), 0. 6037 ( 1998 ), 0. 6106 ( 1997 ), 0. 6403 ( 1996 ), 0. 6335 ( 1995 ); the Manx pound is at par with the British pound

* 1922 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Tyger Drew-Honey, British actor

In 1996 European governments banned British beef over claims that it was infected with " Mad Cow Disease " – the British government withheld cooperation with the EU over the issue, but did not succeed in getting the ban lifted.

* Fryde, E. B., D. E. Greenway, S. Porter and I. Roy ( eds ) ( 1996 ) Handbook of British Chronology, third edition.

Lindow Man on display at the British Museum in 1996.

* The monastery and monks of Lindisfarne are an important part of British author / broadcastor Melvyn Bragg's epic, historically based novel " Credo " published in 1996.

* 1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease ( Bovine spongiform encephalopathy ).

Michael Bentine CBE ( 26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons.

* 1996 – Michael Bentine, British comedian ( b. 1922 )

A 70-page Natural Law Party paper was prepared in the context of the 1996 Framework Document of the British and Irish governments.

British author Peter F. Hamilton's The Night's Dawn Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels: The Reality Dysfunction ( 1996 ), The Neutronium Alchemist ( 1997 ), and The Naked God ( 1999 ).