Trade Practices Act 1974 - Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 2004 - Consumer Product Safety Standard: Pedal Bicycles: Safety Requirements (Cth)

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Trade Practices Act 1974 Consumer Protection Notice No. 6 of 2004 CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD: PEDAL BICYCLES: SAFETY REQUIREMENTS I, CHRIS PEARCE, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, pursuant to section 65E of the Trade Practices Act 1974, hereby DECLARE in respect of goods of a kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this notice, the standard approved by Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand, 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 Pedal bicycles, including fully assembled or partially assembled bicycles, but not including the following:

1. bicycles having a wheel base of less than 640mm;

2. bicycles which are designed, promoted and supplied primarily for use in competition;

3. one of a kind bicycles, being bicycles that are uniquely constructed to the order of an individual consumer;

4. bicycles which are designed to be hinged or folded, or to be taken apart beyond removal of the front wheel, for ease of storage or portability;

5. tandem bicycles;

6. power assisted bicycles;

7. bicycles showing signs of appreciable wear or second hand bicycles; and

8. recumbent bicycles. Division 2: The Standard Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1927: 1998 Pedal bicycles—Safety requirements published by Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand on 5 September 1998. Division 3: Variations AS/NZS 1927: 1998 as specified in Division 2 is varied by: 1. deleting clause 1.1; 2 deleting clause 1.2; 3. deleting from clause 1.3 the words "New Zealand Traffic Regulations 1976"; 4. deleting from clause 1.5(a) the words "or New Zealand"; 5. deleting clause 2.15.1; 6. deleting from clause 2.16 the words "Note: There is no regulatory requirement in New Zealand for a warning device to be fitted to a bicycle"; and 7. deleting clause 2.17.1.