Trade Practices Act 1974 Consumer Protection Notice No. 14 of 2010 Temporary Ban on Goods (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No 14 of 2010

TEMPORARY BAN ON GOODS

I, CRAIG EMERSON, Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs, pursuant to section 65C(5) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 DECLARE goods of a kind specified below to be unsafe goods.

Particulars of goods:

Objects that are designed to hold or decorate a candle, which when subjected to flame or heat emanating from a candle being so held or decorated, ignite and continue to flame for a period of five seconds or more after ignition.

The effect of this declaration is to ban the supply of these goods for a period of 18 months.

Dated this 22nd day of June 2010

CRAIG EMERSON

Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs