COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No.5 of 2004

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR PAPER PATTERNS FOR CHILDREN’S NIGHTWEAR

I, CHRIS PEARCE, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, pursuant to section 65E of the Trade Practices Act 1974, hereby DECLARE that in respect of goods of a kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this notice, the standard specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, as varied by Division 3 of the Schedule, is a consumer product safety standard for the purposes of section 65C of the Trade Practices Act 1974. 

THE SCHEDULE

Division 1: Particulars of Goods

Paper patterns for garments worn as children’s night wear, including pyjamas, pyjama-style overgarments, nightdresses, nightshirts, dressing gowns, bathrobes and infant sleepbags, and garments such as all-in-ones and boxer shorts which may be suitable for daywear or nightwear of any of the sizes 00 to 14 as specified in clause 0.2 and Australian Standard 1182—1997 Size coding scheme for infants’ and children’s clothing—Underwear and outerwear” published by the Standards Association of Australia on 5 March 1997.

The following paper patterns are excluded from the standard:  paper patterns for T shirts and any articles of headwear, leggings either with or without foot, footwear or handwear.

Note: Appendix C of AS/NZS 1249:1999 Children’s nightwear and limited daywear having reduced fire hazard provides guidance on classification of garments as nightclothes/nightwear within the scope of the consumer product safety standard specified in this notice.

Division 2:  The Standard

Clauses 0.2, 0.5.2, 0.5.3, 0.5.6, 05.10 and 5.6 of Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1249: 1999, Children’s nightwear and limited daywear having reduced fire hazard published by Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand on 5 April 1999.

Division 3:  Variations

Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1249: 1999 is varied by

(i) deleting from clause 0.5.3 the notes

(ii) deleting from clause 0.5.10 the words “See Note 1 to Clause 0.1” and

(iii) amending clause 5.6 by adding the words “clearly legible” between the words “shall bear a” and “warning paragraph”. 
 

Dated this       1st                    day of          November          2004

CHRIS PEARCE
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer