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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 2 of 2010 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Portable Ramps for Vehicles

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This Notice makes compliance with updated safety rules mandatory for portable vehicle ramps rated up to 1.5 tonnes, replacing the 1997 standard and adopting AS/NZS 2640:1994 narrowed to light-duty ramps. It prohibits supplying non‑compliant ramps.

It affects manufacturers, importers and retailers of consumer metal or plastic ramps, and matters because it reduces risk of sudden collapse by ensuring ramps meet load-bearing, construction and labelling requirements.

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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 2 of 2010 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Portable Ramps for Vehicles

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No. 2 of 2010

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR PORTABLE RAMPS FOR VEHICLES

I, Craig Emerson, Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs, pursuant to subsection 65E(1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and for the purposes of section 65C of that Act, hereby:

(a) REVOKE the consumer product safety standard for portable ramps for vehicles declared by consumer protection notice No. 6 of 1997 published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. GN 11 of 19 March 1997; and

(b) DECLARE that in respect of goods of the kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this Notice, the standard approved by Standards Australia specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, as varied by 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 the goods

Portable ramps for vehicles with a nominated capacity of up to and including 1.5 tonnes.

Division 2: The Standard

Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2640:1994 Portable ramps for vehicles, approved by Standards Australia on 10 February 1994.

Division 3: Variations

Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2640:1994 is varied by:

(a) Deleting clause 1 and replacing it with:

“1 SCOPE This Standard specifies requirements for the design, construction, performance and marking of portable vehicle ramps with a nominated capacity of up to and including 1.5 tonnes.”.

Dated this 4th day of February 2010

Craig Emerson

Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs

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