1Consumer Goods (Portable Ramps for Vehicles) Safety Standard 2017

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Consumer Goods (Portable Ramps for Vehicles) Safety Standard 2017

I, Michael McCormack, Minister for Small Business, make the following safety standard.

Dated 30 November 2017

Michael McCormack

Minister for Small Business

 

 

 

 

Contents

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

5 Definitions

Part 2—Safety standard

6 Requirements during transitional period

7 Safety standard for vehicle ramps after transitional period

8 Variation of the Australian Standard

Schedule 1—Repeals

Consumer Product Safety Standard for Portable Ramps for Vehicles (Consumer Protection Notice No. 2 of 2010) (Federal Register of Legislation No. F2010L00296)

 

Part 1—Preliminary

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Consumer Goods (Portable Ramps for Vehicles) Safety Standard 2017.

2  Commencement

  This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under sections 104 and 105 of the Australian Consumer Law.

Note: The reference to the Australian Consumer Law is a reference to Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 as it applies as a law of the Commonwealth, States and Territories: see section 140K of that Act and corresponding provisions of Acts of States and Territories applying that Schedule.

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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 2640:2016 Portable ramps for vehicles, as in force on the commencement of this instrument.

Note: The Australian Standard could in 2017 be purchased from SAI Global’s website (). 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.