Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Hot Water Bottles) Regulations 2008 (Cth)

Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Hot Water Bottles) Regulations 20081

Select Legislative Instrument 2008 No. 17

I, PHILIP MICHAEL JEFFERY, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Trade Practices Act 1974. Dated 5 March 2008

P. M. JEFFERY Governor‑General By His Excellency's Command

CHRIS BOWEN Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs

Contents

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Regulations 2 Commencement 3 Purpose 4 Application 5 Interpretation

Part 2 Physical properties

6 Rubber hot water bottles — capacity and thickness 7 PVC hot water bottles — capacity and thickness 8 Filling characteristics

Part 3 Stoppers

9 General 10 Test for separation of screw stopper

Part 4 Performance

11 Leakage 12 Strength of seams 13 Pressure test

Part 5 Informative labelling

14 General

Schedule 1 Tests for stoppers Part 1.1 Filling a hot water bottle prior to testing Part 1.2 Tests for stoppers Part 1.3 Test for separation of screw stoppers

Schedule 2 Seam test

Schedule 3 Determination of pressure resistance

Schedule 4 Informative labels for hot water bottles Part 4.1 General

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Hot Water Bottles) Regulations 2008.

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on the day after they are registered.

3 Purpose

For subsection 65C (2) of the Trade Practices Act 1974, these Regulations set out the consumer product safety standard for hot water bottles.

4 Application

These Regulations apply to hot water bottles that are manufactured in Australia, or imported into Australia, on or after 1 June 2008.

5 Interpretation

In these Regulations: ferrule means a metal or plastic ring designed to assist in achieving a water tight seal for a hot water bottle. filling aperture means an opening in the neck block of a hot water bottle through which water may enter. hot water bottle means a container: (a) made from PVC or rubber; and (b) designed to be: (i) completely or partly filled with hot water; and (ii) sealed with a stopper; and (iii) used for the purpose of warming parts of the body or a bed; and (c) that includes: (i) a ferrule; and (ii) a filling aperture; and (iii) a neck block; and (iv) a stopper. integral filling funnel means a funnel that is designed to assist the safe filling of a hot water bottle. neck block means the top of a hot water bottle when the hot water bottle is being filled. PVC means polyvinyl chloride. stopper means a device that is designed to be inserted into the neck block of a hot water bottle to trap water in the body of a hot water bottle.