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No. 9 of 1997 Standards/Product Safety as made
Consumer Product Safety Standard for Exercise Cycles. Adopts and varies the Australian Standard 4092-1993, Exercise cycles - Safety requirements, approved by the Standards Association of Australia on 26 August 1993 and published on 11 October 1993.
Administered by: Treasury
General Comments: This Notice was originally made under section 65E of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and is continued in force under section 104 of the Australian Consumer Law (as set out in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010) (Act No. 51 of 1974) (see Schedule 7, item 4 of the Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No. 2) 2010 (Act No. 103 of 2010)).
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Registered 07 Apr 2005
Gazetted 02 Apr 1997

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

 

Trade Practices Act 1974

 

Consumer Protection Notice No. 9 of 1997

 

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD – EXERCISE CYCLES

 

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 exercise cycles published in Gazette No. GN41, 19 October, 1994; and

(b)   DECLARE that, in respect of 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 Division2 of the Schedule as varied by the variations specified in Division 3 of the Schedule, is a consumer product safety standard for the purposes of section 65C of the Act.

 

SCHEDULE

 

Division 1: Particulars of goods

 

Exercise cycles, being stationary devices designed to be used for personal physical exercise by means of an activity simulating bicycle riding.

 

Division 2: The Standard

 

Australian Standard 4092 – 1993, Exercise cycles – Safety requirements, approved by the Standards Association of Australia on 26 August 1993 and published on 11 October 1993.

 

Division 3: Variations

 

The standard specified in Division 2 is varied by deleting clauses 1.1, 1.2, 1.3.1,3.3 and 4.1.

 

 

Dated this 24th day of February 1997

 

 

 

 

 

GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER

Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs