Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 2004 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Pedal Bicycles: Safety Requirements

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 2004

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD: PEDAL BICYCLES: SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

I, CHRIS PEARCE, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, pursuant to section 65E of the Trade Practices Act 1974, hereby DECLARE in respect of goods of a kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this notice, the standard approved by Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand, 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. 

THE SCHEDULE

Division 1: Particulars of the goods

Pedal bicycles, including fully assembled or partially assembled bicycles, but not including the following:

1. bicycles having a wheel base of less than 640mm;

2. bicycles which are designed, promoted and supplied primarily for use in competition;

3. one of a kind bicycles, being bicycles that are uniquely constructed to the order of an individual consumer;

4. bicycles which are designed to be hinged or folded, or to be taken apart beyond removal of the front wheel, for ease of storage or portability;

5. tandem bicycles;

6. power assisted bicycles;

7. bicycles showing signs of appreciable wear or second hand bicycles; and

8. recumbent bicycles.

Division 2: The Standard

Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1927: 1998 Pedal bicycles—Safety requirements published by Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand on 5 September 1998.

Division 3:  Variations

AS/NZS 1927: 1998 as specified in Division 2 is varied by:

1. deleting clause 1.1;

2 deleting clause 1.2;

3. deleting from clause 1.3 the words “New Zealand Traffic Regulations 1976”;

4. deleting from clause 1.5(a) the words “or New Zealand”;

5. deleting clause 2.15.1;

6. deleting from clause 2.16 the words “Note: There is no regulatory requirement in New Zealand for a warning device to be fitted to a bicycle”; and

7. deleting clause 2.17.1.

Dated this          1st                      day of             November                      2004.

CHRIS PEARCE
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer