Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Treadmills) Regulations 2009 (Cth)

Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Treadmills) Regulations 20091

Select Legislative Instrument 2009 No. 107

I, QUENTIN BRYCE, 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 4 June 2009

QUENTIN BRYCE Governor-General By Her Excellency's Command

CHRIS BOWEN Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs

1 Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Trade Practices (Consumer Product Safety Standard) (Treadmills) Regulations 2009.

2 Commencement

These Regulations commence on day after they are registered.

3 Purpose

These Regulations prescribe a consumer product safety standard for treadmills.

4 Application

(1) On and after 1 August 2009, these Regulations apply to treadmills that are: (a) manufactured in Australia on or after that day; or (b) imported into Australia on or after that day.

(2) On and after 1 December 2009, these Regulations apply to all treadmills: (a) manufactured in Australia, no matter when they were manufactured; and (b) imported into Australia, no matter when they were imported.

5 Definitions

In these Regulations: Act means the Trade Practices Act 1974. treadmill means an exercise device that consists of an endless conveyor belt that is either rotated manually or by a motor and on which a person can walk or jog in one place.

6 Safety standard

(1) For paragraph 65C (2) (c) of the Act, a treadmill must display a permanent warning label that is conspicuous and visible to a user of the treadmill when the treadmill is being used.

(2) The warning label must bear the following statement:

"WARNING: Keep young children away from this machine at all times. Contact with the moving surface may result in severe friction burns."