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