1Trade Practices (Apparel and Related Goods Safety Standard) Regulations

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 16

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRADE PRACTICES ACT 19741

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974.

Dated this ninth day of February 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R ELLICOTT

Minister of State for Home Affairs and Minister of State

for the Capital Territory for and on behalf of the

Minister of State for Business and Consumer Affairs

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TRADE PRACTICES (APPAREL AND RELATED GOODS SAFETY STANDARD) REGULATIONS

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Practices (Apparel and Related Goods Safety Standard) Regulations.

Commencement

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on 17 February 1979.

Prescribed consumer product safety standard for apparel and related goods

3. (1) For the purposes of section 62 of the Trade Practices Act 1974, the consumer product safety standard specified in sub-regulation (2) is prescribed in respect of—

(a) apparel; and

(b) yarns, textile fabrics or synthetic fibres of a kind used in the making of apparel.

(2) The consumer product safety standard referred to in sub-regulation (1) consists of the requirement that—

(a) apparel; and

(b) yarns, textile fabrics or synthetic fibres of a kind used in the making of apparel,

shall not contain tris (2, 3 dibromopropyl) phosphate.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 15 February 1979.