Statutory Rules 1987 No. 2461

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Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety

Standards) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Dated 22 October 1987.

J. A. ROWLAND

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

Peter Staples

Minister of State for

Consumer Affairs

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The Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standards) Regulations are amended by adding at the end the following regulation:

Consumer product safety standards: bean bags, bean bag covers and packages containing bean bag filling

“11. (1) In this regulation:

‘bean bag’ means a cushion or similar item which consists of a bag or cover surrounding bean bag filling and includes a bean bag for use in swimming pools;

‘bean bag cover’ means a bag or cover capable of being filled with bean bag filling and which, if filled with bean bag filling, would constitute a bean bag and includes a bag or cover intended as a separate inner lining for a bean bag;

‘bean bag filling’ means pellets, or small particles, of polystyrene or other similar synthetic material;

‘child-resistant slide-fastener’ means a slide-fastener having a sliding piece which:

(a) does not have attached to it any tag, handle or other object which would facilitate the movement of the sliding piece; and

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(b) incorporates a locking mechanism which prevents the sliding piece opening the slide-fastener unless a wholly separate device is used to disengage the locking mechanism and act as a handle in moving the sliding piece between the teeth;

‘slide-fastener’ means a device comprising 2 sets of teeth, each set of teeth being located on adjacent edges of the device and having an attached sliding piece which, by moving between the adjacent teeth of each edge, causes the teeth to interlock or cease to interlock, as the case may be, with teeth of the adjacent edge.

“(2) For the purposes of section 65c of the Act, the consumer product safety standard consisting of the requirements of subregulations (4), (5) and (6) is prescribed in respect of bean bags and bean bag covers.

“(3) For the purposes of section 65c of the Act, the consumer product safety standard consisting of the requirements of subregulations (4) and (5) is prescribed in respect of packages of every description containing bean bag filling.

“(4) Every bean bag, bean bag cover and package of every description containing bean bag filling shall have fixed securely to, or stamped on, it a label or notice in the following form:

‘WARNING: Small Lightweight Beads Present a Severe Danger to Children if Swallowed or Inhaled’.

“(5) A warning label or notice referred to in subregulation (4) shall:

(a) bear the word ‘WARNING’ in upper case red letters of not less than 5 millimetres in height on a white background;

(b) bear the remaining words in upper and lower case letters as shown in subregulation (4), the upper case letters being of not less than 5 millimetres in height; and

(c) be conspicuously displayed.

“(6) Every bean bag and bean bag cover shall have a child-resistant slide-fastener fitted to every opening through which bean bag filling can be inserted or removed.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 October 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1979 No. 134 as amended by 1980 No. 31; 1981 No. 167; 1986 No. 310.

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