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

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 31

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRADE PRACTICES ACT 19741

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 this twenty-sixth day of February 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

 By His Excellency’s Command,

R. V. GARLAND

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

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AMENDMENTS OF THE TRADE PRACTICES (CONSUMER

PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARDS) REGULATIONS2

1Warnings accompanying goods

Regulation 5 of the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations is amended by omitting “particular kind,” and substituting “particular kind or on goods of a particular kind”.

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

Consumer product safety standard for airpots

“9. (1) For the purposes of section 62 of the Act, the consumer product safety standard specified in this regulation is prescribed in respect of airpots.

• “(2)

  The consumer product safety standard referred to in sub-regulation (1) consists of the requirement that a warning shall be placed on airpots as provided by this regulation.

• “(3)

  The warning referred to in sub-regulation (2) consists of the words—

‘CAUTION:

THIS AIRPOT MAY LEAK.

KEEP UPRIGHT AT ALL TIMES.

CLEAN PUMP THOROUGHLY AFTER USE.’.

• “(4)

  The letters used in the words of the warning on airpots shall be clearly legible in upper case, monoline, geometric lineal typeface of medium width characters not less than 2.5 millimetres in height with the word ‘CAUTION’ in bold typeface.

• “(5)

  In this regulation, ‘airpots’ means insulated flasks or containers fitted with a hand operated pump and used for the temporary storage of hot or cold liquids and beverages.

• “(6)

  This regulation shall come into operation on 29 February 1980.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 February 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 134.