Fair Trading (General) Amendment (Rubber Hot Water Bottles) Regulation 2006 (NSW)

2006 No 663

New South Wales

Fair Trading (General) Amendment

(Rubber Hot Water Bottles)

Regulation 2006

under the

Fair Trading Act 1987

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Fair Trading Act 1987.

DIANE BEAMER, M.P., Minister for Fair Trading

Explanatory note

The object of this Regulation is to prescribe a product safety standard for rubber hot water standards) and 92 (the general regulation-making power).

bottles.
The product safety standard prescribed is that rubber hot water bottles must comply with
certain provisions of the British Standard entitled BS 1970:2001, Hot water bottles
manufactured from rubber and PVC—Specification.

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Fair Trading (General) Amendment (Rubber Hot Water

Bottles) Regulation 2006

under the

Fair Trading Act 1987

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fair Trading (General) Amendment (Rubber Hot
Water Bottles) Regulation 2006.

2      Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 January 2007.

3 Amendment of Fair Trading (General) Regulation 2002

The Fair Trading (General) Regulation 2002 is amended as set out in
Schedule 1.

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(Clause 3)

Part 2 Product safety standards

Insert after Division 21:

Division 22	Rubber hot water bottles
74K	Definitions

Hot water bottles manufactured from rubber and PVC—Specification (incorporating Amendments Nos 1, 2 and 3). rubber hot water bottle means a container made from rubber that is designed to be wholly or partially filled with hot water and sealed with a stopper and used to warm parts of the body or a bed.

In this Division: 1970:2001,

74L Safety standard

The product safety standard prescribed for rubber hot water bottles is that they must comply with the following provisions of BS 1970:2001:

Physical properties

(a)	Clause 4.2 (Thickness),
(b)	Clause 4.3 (Filling characteristics),

Closures

(c)

Clause 5.1 (General), modified as follows:

(i)	by omitting the words “C.1 and C.2” from the first paragraph and by inserting instead the words “Annex C - C.3 Test 1 and Annex C - C.4 Test 2”,
(ii)	by omitting all of the words in the second paragraph,

(d)

Clause 5.2 (Test for separation of screwed closures),

(e)

Clause 5.3 (Rubber components),

Performance

(f)	Clause 6.1 (Leakage),
(g)	Clause 6.2 (Strength of bonded (or welded) seams),
(h)	Clause 6.3 (Pressure test),

(i)      Clause 6.4.2 (Tensile tests for rubber hot water bottles),

(j) Clause 6.5.1 (Tension set for rubber hot water bottles),

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Informative labelling

(k) Clause 8.1 (General), modified by omitting the words “the identification of the European manufacturer, or the UK distributor for bottles manufactured outside the European Union, and”.

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