Commonwealth legislation

Consumer Goods (Babies’ Dummies and Dummy Chains) Safety Standard 2017

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Plain English Summary

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This instrument fixes specific versions of Australian and European safety standards for babies’ dummies and dummy chains and gives them legal effect by amending or repealing other instruments listed in its Schedules. That binds manufacturers, importers and retailers to those standards at commencement, creating immediate compliance and information costs (buying standards, testing, redesign) and legal certainty about the text used. It also risks scope ambiguity (broad “dummy chain” wording) and requires later instrument change to adopt updated standard versions.

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Schedules

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions

In this instrument:

Australian Standard means Australian Standard AS 2432:2015 - Babies’ dummies published by, or on behalf of, Standards Australia, as in force on the commencement of this instrument.

Note: The Australian standard could in 2017 be purchased from the SAI Global website (www.saiglobal.com). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission can make a copy of the standard available for viewing at one of its offices, subject to licensing conditions.

babies’ dummy means an article intended to satisfy the non-nutritive sucking needs of a baby, which includes a teat that the baby sucks.

Note: A babies’ dummy is also known as a ‘pacifier’ or ‘soother’.

dummy chain means pins, ribbons, strings, cords, chains, twines, leathers, yarns or any other similar article that is designed to be attached to babies’ dummies.

European soother standard means European Standard EN 1400:2013+A1:2014 – Child use and care article – Soothers for babies and young children – Safety requirements and test methods published by the European Committee for Standardization, as in force on the commencement of this instrument.

Note: The European soother standard could in 2017 be purchased from the European Committee for Standardization’s website (standards.cen.eu). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission can make a copy of the standard available for viewing at one of its offices, subject to licensing conditions.

European soother holder standard means European Standard EN 12586:2007+A1:2011 – Child use and care articles – Soother holder – Safety requirements and test methods published by the European Committee for Standardization, as in force on the commencement of this instrument.

Note: The European soother holder standard could in 2017 be purchased from the European Committee for Standardization’s website (www.standards.cen.eu). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission can make a copy of the standard available for viewing at one of its offices, subject to licensing conditions.

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