Sale of Hazardous Goods Order 2002
The Products Safety Committee makes the following order under section 8 of the Sale of Hazardous Goods Act 1977 .
PART 1 - Preliminary
This order may be cited as the Sale of Hazardous Goods Order 2002 .
This order takes effect on 1 November 2002.
PART 2 - Baby walkers
In this Part –baby walker means a device that –(a) consists of a frame on wheels designed to support, inside the frame and with the child's feet touching the ground, a child who has not yet learned to walk; and(b) is propelled by the movement of the child;baby walker consumer product safety standard means sections 6.1, 6.4 and 9.3 of the United States Standard (ASTM F 977-00) entitled Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Walkers, approved on 10 April 2000, published in July 2000 and available from the website of the American Society for Testing and Materials (www.astm.org).
4. Condition on sale of baby walkers
A person must not sell a baby walker unless it complies with the baby walker consumer product safety standard.
PART 3 - Bunk beds
In this Part –bunk bed means –(a) a set of components that are assembled or are ready for assembly into single beds, or double/single combination beds, which will be stacked one over the other; or(b) any bed, other than a hospital bed, where the upper surface of the mattress base is at least 800 millimetres above the floor surface;bunk bed consumer product safety standard means the consumer product safety standard for bunk beds declared under section 65E of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the Commonwealth.
6. Condition on sale of bunk beds
A person must not sell a bunk bed unless it complies with the bunk bed consumer product safety standard.
PART 4 - Disposable Cigarette Lighters
In this Part –Commonwealth regulations means the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Disposable Cigarette Lighters) Regulations of the Commonwealth;disposable cigarette lighter means a disposable lighter as defined in the Commonwealth regulations;disposable cigarette lighter consumer product safety standard means the consumer product safety standard prescribed for disposable lighters by the Commonwealth regulations.
8. Condition on sale of disposable cigarette lighters
A person must not sell a disposable cigarette lighter unless it complies with the disposable cigarette lighter consumer product safety standard.
The Sale of Hazardous Goods (Disposable Cigarette Lighters) Order 1997 is revoked.
PART 5 - . . . . . . . .[Part 5 Rescinded by S.R. 2010, No. 89, Applied:01 Sep 2010] [Clause 10 Rescinded by S.R. 2010, No. 89, Applied:01 Sep 2010] . . . . . . . . [Clause 11 Rescinded by S.R. 2010, No. 89, Applied:01 Sep 2010] . . . . . . . .
This order was made by the Products Safety Committee at a meeting held on 5 April 2002.
R. Ormerod
Chairman
Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953.
Notified in the Gazette on 16 October 2002
This order is administered in the Department of Justice and Industrial Relations.