COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Trade Practices Act 1974 — sub-section 65E (1)
Consumer Protection Notice No. 2 of 1996
DECLARATION OF A CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD
CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS FOR USE IN MOTOR VEHICLES
I, GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER, Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs, under sub-section 65E (1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974:
(a) revoke the Declaration of a Consumer Product Safety Standard under sub-section 65E (1) notified in the Gazette on 2 June 1993; and
(b) declare that, in respect of goods of a kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule, the standard specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, as varied by Division 3 of the Schedule, is a consumer product safety standard for the purposes of section 65C of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
SCHEDULE
Division 1: Specified Goods
The following goods, not being child restraints that are an integrated feature of a motor vehicle, are specified:
(1) child restraints for use in motor vehicles, being devices to reduce the risk of bodily injury to a child passenger in the event of a motor vehicle impact.
(2) components:
(a) to restrain a child in a child restraint;
(b) to anchor a child restraint to a motor vehicle;
(c) to restrain a vehicle seat.
(3) chaises for use in motor vehicles, being devices for:
(a) raising a child’s position in a motor vehicle; or
(b) adapting an adult seat belt for use as a child restraint; and
having a back above the seating plane.
(4) cushions for use in motor vehicles, being devices for:
(a) raising a child’s position in a motor vehicle; or
(b) adapting an adult seat belt for use as a child restraint; and
having no back above the seating plane.
Division 2: Specified Standard
Australian Standard 1754-1991, Child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles, approved by Standards Australia on 26 November 1991 as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated 12 October 1993 and Amendment No. 2 dated 15 February 1992.
Division 3: Variations
Australian Standard 1754-1991 is varied by:
(1) omitting “passenger cars and their derivatives,” and substituting “motor vehicles,” in clause 1.1;
(2) omitting the second sentence of clause 1.1;
(3) omitting clauses 2.4 and 2.5.
Dated 13th day of December 1996
GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER
Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs