Trade Practices Act 1974

NOTICE UNDER SECTION 65E

Consumer Protection Notice No 4 of 1992

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD – CHILDREN’S FLOTATION

TOYS AND SWIMMING AIDS

I, MICHAEL CARTER TATE, Minister of State for Justice and Consumer Affairs pursuant to section 65E(1) of the Trade Practices Act, hereby:

(a)   revoke the consumer product safety standard in respect of children’s flotation toys and swimming aids published in Gazette Number S620 of 1 December 1986; and

(b)   declare that in respect of the goods specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this Notice, the standard specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, as amended by the variation specified in 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

Flotation toys and swimming aids likely to be used by children of any age less than 15 years in recreational activities or to assist in swimming tuition, including but not limited to:

(i) rings, partial rings, arm bands and kick boards which are inflatable, hollow moulded or made substantially from expanded foam;

(ii) inflatable toy boats having fewer than three separate chambers, or having a length and width the sum of which is less than three metres;

(iii) swimming vests and flotation bubbles;

but not including:-

(iv) goods for therapeutic use by disabled persons;

(v) goods for use as life jackets which comply, or which comply substantially with Australian Standard AS 1512–1988;

(vi) goods for use as buoyancy vests which comply, or which comply substantially with Australian Standard AS 1499-1988;

(vii) goods for use primarily as a means of flotation for persons in water and in need of rescue, including goods carried in or on ships or boats for such a purpose.

Division 2: The Standard

Australian Standard AS 1900-1991; “Childrens’ Flotation Toys and Swimming Aids”, published by the Standards Association of Australia on 16 September 1991.

Division 3: Variations

The standard specified in Division 2 is varied by deleting clause 1.1.

Dated this fourth day of March 1992.

Michael Carter Tate

Minister of State for Justice and Consumer Affairs