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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 1997 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Portable Ramps for Vehicles

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This notice mandates safety requirements for portable vehicle ramps—the metal or plastic ramps used to load motorbikes, ATVs, or garden equipment into trucks and trailers.

The guts of it:

Out with the old: Ditches the previous safety standard from October 1994 (Gazette No. GN 39)
In with the new: Makes Australian Standard 2640-1994 legally binding for all ramps rated to carry up to 1.5 tonnes

Who needs to care: Manufacturers, importers, and retailers selling portable ramps in Australia. If your ramp collapses under load and injures someone because it didn't meet this standard, you face penalties under the Trade Practices Act.

The bottom line: It prevents cheap, poorly engineered ramps from failing during use. The law essentially says: "If you sell a ramp for loading vehicles, it must meet the engineering specs in AS 2640-1994."

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Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 1997 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Portable Ramps for Vehicles

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Trade Practices Act 1974

Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 1997

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD – PORTABLE RAMPS FOR VEHICLES

I, GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER, Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs, pursuant to section 65E(1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974, hereby:

(a) REVOKE the consumer product safety standard in respect of portable ramps for vehicles published in Gazette No. GN 39, 5 October 1994; and

(b) DECLARE that, in respect of the goods of a kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this Notice, the standard approved by the Standards Association of Australia specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, is a consumer product safety standard for the purposes of section 65 C of the Act

SCHEDULE

Division 1: Particulars of Goods

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

Division 2: The Standard

Australian Standard 2640 – 1994 “Portable Ramps for Vehicles”, approved by Standards Australia on 10 February 1994.

Dated this 3rd day of March 1997

GEOFFREY DANIEL PROSSER

Minister for Small Business and Consumer Affairs

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Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 1997 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Portable Ramps for Vehicles