Sale of Hazardous Goods Order 2002 (Tas)

Sale of Hazardous Goods Order 2002

The Products Safety Committee makes the following order under section 8 of the Sale of Hazardous Goods Act 1977 .

PART 1 - Preliminary

1. Short title This order may be cited as the Sale of Hazardous Goods Order 2002 .

2. Commencement This order takes effect on 1 November 2002.

PART 2 - Baby walkers

3. Interpretation In this Part – baby walker means a device that – (a) consists of a frame on wheels designed to support, inside the frame and with the child's feet touching the ground, a child who has not yet learned to walk; and (b) is propelled by the movement of the child; baby walker consumer product safety standard means sections 6.1, 6.4 and 9.3 of the United States Standard (ASTM F 977-00) entitled Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Walkers, approved on 10 April 2000, published in July 2000 and available from the website of the American Society for Testing and Materials (www.astm.org).

4. Condition on sale of baby walkers A person must not sell a baby walker unless it complies with the baby walker consumer product safety standard.

PART 3 - Bunk beds

5. Interpretation In this Part – bunk bed means – (a) a set of components that are assembled or are ready for assembly into single beds, or double/single combination beds, which will be stacked one over the other; or (b) any bed, other than a hospital bed, where the upper surface of the mattress base is at least 800 millimetres above the floor surface; bunk bed consumer product safety standard means the consumer product safety standard for bunk beds declared under section 65E of the Trade Practices Act 1974 of the Commonwealth.

6. Condition on sale of bunk beds A person must not sell a bunk bed unless it complies with the bunk bed consumer product safety standard.