COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 1997

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD – PORTABLE RAMPS FOR VEHICLES

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 portable ramps for vehicles published in Gazette No. GN 39, 5 October 1994; and

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

SCHEDULE

Division 1:  Particulars of Goods

Portable ramps for vehicles with a nominated capacity up to and including 1.5 tonnes.

Division 2:  The Standard

Australian Standard 2640 – 1994 “Portable Ramps for Vehicles”, approved by Standards Australia on 10 February 1994.

Dated this 3^rd day of March 1997

GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER

Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs