Consumer Goods (Swimming and Flotation Aids) Safety Standard 2017 (Cth)

Consumer Goods (Swimming and Flotation Aids) Safety Standard 2017 I, Michael McCormack, Minister for Small Business, make the following safety standard.

Dated 14 December 2017

Michael McCormack Minister for Small Business

Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Schedules 5 Definitions Part 2—Basic requirements 6 Requirements during transitional period 7 Requirements after transitional period Part 3—Details of requirements 8 Australian/New Zealand Standard requirements 9 Requirements of Consumer Protection Notice No 3 of 2009 Schedule 1—Repeals Consumer Product Safety Standard for Swimming Aids and Flotation Aids for Water Familiarisation and Swimming Tuition (Consumer Protection Notice No 3 of 2009) (Federal Register of Legislation No. F2009L01476)

Part 1—Preliminary

1 Name This instrument is the Consumer Goods (Swimming and Flotation Aids) Safety Standard 2017.

2 Commencement This instrument commences on the day after this instrument is registered on the Federal Register of Legislation.

3 Authority This instrument is made under section 104(1) of the Australian Consumer Law. Note: The reference to the Australian Consumer Law is a reference to Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 as it applies as a law of the Commonwealth, States and Territories: see section 140K of that Act and corresponding provisions of Acts of States and Territories applying that Schedule.

4 Schedules Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

5 Definitions In this instrument: Australian/New Zealand Standard means Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1900:2014 Flotation aids for water familiarization and swimming tuition, as in force on the commencement of this instrument. Note: The Australian/New Zealand Standard could in 2017 be purchased from SAI Global's website (https://www.saiglobal.com). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission can make a copy of the standard available for viewing at one of its offices, subject to licensing conditions. flotation aid means an article: (a) designed for children under 14 years of age; and (b) to be worn on or attached to the user's body, or sat in by the user, for the purpose of enabling them to gain confidence through water familiarisation, or to assist them in acquiring unaided buoyancy through swimming tuition; and (c) that is not any of the following: (i) a flotation toy; (ii) an unattached flotation device; (iii) an article designed only for therapeutic use; (iv) an article designed for use by disabled persons; (v) a personal flotation device for use in boating or other recreational water activities. transitional period means the period of 24 months beginning on the day this instrument commences.