Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1989 No. 3751

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Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety

Standards) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Dated 14 December 1989.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

Nick Bolkus

Minister of State for Consumer Affairs

 

Principal Regulations

1. In these Regulations, “Principal Regulations”means the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations.

Warnings accompanying goods

2. Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting at the end the following subregulation:

“(2) Subregulation (1) does not apply where these Regulations make other provision in relation to the form and content of markings, warnings or instructions to accompany goods of a particular kind.”.

3. After regulation 11 of the Principal Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Consumer product safety standard—elastic luggage straps

“11a. (1) In this regulation, ‘elastic luggage strap’means an elastic strap or cord or 2 or more elastic straps or cords permanently joined and:

(a) having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity; and

 

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(b) designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.

“(2) For the purposes of section 65c of the Act the consumer product safety standard specified in subregulation (3) is prescribed in respect of elastic luggage straps.

“(3) The consumer product safety standard referred to in subregulation (2) consists of the requirement that elastic luggage straps have permanently affixed to them a label bearing the following warning:

‘WARNING, Avoid eye injury. Do not overstretch. Strap may rebound.’.

“(4) A label referred to in subregulation (3) must:

(a) bear the word ‘WARNING’ in upper case red letters of not less than 5 millimetres in height on a white background; and

(b) bear the remaining words in upper or lower case letters of not less than 2.5mm in height; and

(c) be conspicuously displayed.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1989.

2.Statutory Rules 1979 No. 134 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1989 No. 336 and see also Statutory Rules 1989 No. 336.

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