COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No 4 of 1997

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD:  TROLLEY JACKS

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 trolley jacks published in Gazette No. GN 17, 5 May 1993;

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

(c)   DECLARE that the standard first mentioned in Division 2 of the Schedule shall cease to have effect on and from 1 January 1999

SCHEDULE

Division 1: Particulars of Goods

Trolley jacks with a nominated capacity up to and including 2.5 tonnes.

Division 2:  The Standards

Either

Australian Standard 2615 – 1987 “Trolley Jacks” approved by the Standards Association of Australia on 4 May 1987;

or

Australian/New Zealand Standard 2615 – 1995 “Hydraulic Trolley Jacks”, approved by the Standards Association of Australia on 24 August 1995.

Dated this 3rd day of March 1997

GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER

Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs