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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 18 of 2010 - Permanent Ban on Goods

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No. 18 of 2010 Standards/Product Safety as made
This Notice imposes a permanent ban on a 'No Holes Tongue Stud' and similar products.
Administered by: Treasury
General Comments: This notice was originally made under subsection 65C(7) of the Trade Practices Act 1974. Item 3 of Schedule 7 to the Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No. 2) 2010 (Act No. 103 of 2010) provides that this notice remains in force from 1 January 2011 as if it had been made under section 114 of the Australian Consumer Law (as set out in Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Act No. 51 of 1974)).

Note: the Trade Practices Act 1974 was renamed the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 on 1 January 2011 (see item 2 of Schedule 5 to the Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No. 2) 2010 (Act No. 103 of 2010)).
Exempt from sunsetting by the Legislation (Exemptions and Other Matters) Regulation 2015 s12 item 16
Registered 23 Dec 2010
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR08-Feb-2011
Tabled Senate08-Feb-2011

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

 

TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1974

 

Consumer Protection Notice No 18 of 2010

 

PERMANENT BAN ON GOODS

 

I, CRAIG EMERSON, Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs, pursuant to section 65C(7) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 IMPOSE a permanent ban on goods of a kind specified below.

 

Particulars of goods:

 

A "No Holes Tongue Stud" and similar products as described below are unsafe goods.

 

Description of a "No Holes Tongue Stud":

 

(i)    a small bead with an opening on one side only, which acts to create a vacuum; and

 

(ii)   is intended for use as jewellery on the human tongue, without the need for piercing.

 

 

 

Dated this 30th day of June 2010

 

 

CRAIG EMERSON

Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs