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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 16 of 2010 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Children's Projectile Toys

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This notice creates mandatory Australian safety rules for toys that launch projectiles (e.g., dart guns, foam ball launchers) and applies to manufacturers, importers and retailers supplying such toys for children up to 14. It adopts selected clauses from the AS/NZS ISO 8124.1:2002 toy safety standard (definitions, projectile testing and breakage/small-part safety) but narrows one test so suction-cup checks apply only to projectiles with suction-cap tips. It matters because it reduces risks of eye injury, choking and toxic exposure and enables enforcement, recalls and penalties for non‑compliance.

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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 16 of 2010 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Children's Projectile Toys

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No. 16 of 2010

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR CHILDREN’S PROJECTILE TOYS

I, CRAIG EMERSON, Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, pursuant to subsection 65E (1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and for the purposes of section 65C of that Act, hereby DECLARE that from 31 December 2010 the consumer product safety standard for projectile toys is the clauses of the standard approved by Standards Australia specified in Division 1 of the Schedule as varied by Division 2 of the Schedule.

Division 3 of the Schedule defines children’s projectile toys for the purposes of this standard.

THE SCHEDULE

Division 1: The Standard

The following clauses and parts of Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 8124.1:2002, Safety of toys Part 1 – Safety aspects related to mechanical and physical properties, published by Standards Australia on 16 May 2002 and Amendment No. 1 to AS/NZS ISO 8124.1 published by Standards Australia on 25 May 2007:

i) Clause 3;

ii) Clause 4.18 as varied by Appendix ZZ;

iii) Figure 13;

iv) Clause 5.15;

v) Clause 5.24.5; and

vi) Clause 5.24.6.4.

Division 2: Variations to AS/NZS ISO 8124.1

Clause 4.18.2(d) is varied by deleting the words “Each projectile” and substituting the words, “Each projectile having a suction cap tip”.

Division 3: Definition of children’s projectile toys

For the purposes of this standard, children’s projectile toys are products supplied new that are designed or clearly intended for use in play by children up to the age of fourteen years, and which are capable of launching a projectile.

Dated this 30th day of June 2010

CRAIG EMERSON

Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs

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