COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No 4 of 1997

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD:  TROLLEY JACKS

I, GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER, Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs, pursuant to section 65E(1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974, hereby:

(a)    REVOKE  the consumer product safety standard in respect of trolley jacks published in Gazette No. GN 17, 5 May 1993;

(b)   DECLARE that, in respect of the goods of a kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this Notice, the standards approved by the Standards Association of Australia specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, are consumer product safety standards for the purposes of section 65C of the Act; and

(c)    DECLARE that the standard first mentioned in Division 2 of the Schedule shall cease to have effect on and from 1 January 1999

SCHEDULE

Division 1: Particulars of Goods

Trolley jacks with a nominated capacity up to and including 2.5 tonnes.

Division 2:  The Standards

Either

Australian Standard 2615 – 1987 “Trolley Jacks” approved by the Standards Association of Australia on 4 May 1987;

or

Australian/New Zealand Standard 2615 – 1995 “Hydraulic Trolley Jacks”, approved by the Standards Association of Australia on 24 August 1995.

Dated this 3^rd day of March 1997

GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER

Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs