Promoting or undertaking scientific research.

Promoting or undertaking inquiry as to materials and equipment and as to methods of production, management and labour utilisation, including the discovery and development of new materials, equipment and methods and of improvements in those already in use, the assessment of the advantages of different alternatives, and the conduct of experimental establishments and of tests on a commercial scale.

Promoting or undertaking research into matters affecting industrial psychology.

Promoting or undertaking measures for the improvement of design, including promoting or undertaking the establishment and operation of design centres.

Promoting the production and marketing of standard products.

Promoting the better definition of trade descriptions and consistency in the use thereof.

Undertaking the certification of products, the registration of certification trade marks, and the functions of proprietors of such marks.

Promoting the training of persons engaged or proposing engagement in the industry, and their education in technical or artistic subjects relevant thereto.

Promoting the adoption of measures for securing safer and better working conditions, and the provision and improvement of amenities for persons employed, and promoting or undertaking inquiry as to such measures.

Promoting or undertaking research into the incidence, prevention and cure of industrial diseases.

Promoting or undertaking arrangements for encouraging the entry of persons into the industry.

Promoting or undertaking research for improving arrangements for marketing and distributing products.

Promoting or undertaking research into matters relating to the consumption or use of goods and services supplied by the industry.

Promoting arrangements for co-operative organisations for supplying materials and equipment, for co-ordinating production, and for marketing and distributing products.

Promoting the development of export trade, including promoting or undertaking arrangements for publicity overseas.

Promoting or undertaking arrangements for better acquainting the public in the United Kingdom with the goods and services supplied by the industry and methods of using them.

Promoting the improvement of accounting and costing practice and uniformity therein, including in particular the formulation of standard costings.

Promoting or undertaking the collection and formulation of statistics.

Advising on any matters relating to the industry (other than remuneration or conditions of employment) as to which the Board or Minister concerned may request the council to advise, and undertaking inquiry for the purpose of enabling the council so to advise.

Undertaking arrangements for making available information obtained, and for advising, on matters with which the council are concerned in the exercise of any of their functions.