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

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 1671

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Trade Practices (Consumer Product

Safety Standards) Regulations2(Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government 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 25 June 1981.

 STANLEY BURBURY

 Administrator

 By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN MOORE

Minister of State for Business and

Consumer Affairs

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 The Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following regulation:

Consumer product safety standard for balloon-blowing kits

“10.

(1) For the purposes of section 62 of the Act, the consumer product safety standard specified in sub-regulation (2) is prescribed in respect of balloon-blowing kits.

“(2)

The consumer product safety standard referred to in sub-regulation (1) consists of the requirement that the substance contained in balloon-blowing kits that is capable of being used to make inflated balloons shall not contain polyvinyl acetate, ethyl acetate, acetone or benzene.

“(3)

In this regulation, ‘balloon-blowing kits’ means goods that contain a substance capable of being used to make inflated balloons by the action of blowing the whole or a portion of the substance from a tube (not being a container) contained in the goods.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 June 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 134 as amended by 1980 No. 31.