Requirements of AS/NZS 1754 which are mandated in the safety standard relate to: The declaration of the three most recent versions of AS/NZS 1754 as alternative standards is to ensure that hire services and second hand suppliers do not face an unreasonable burden of compliance. All versions of the Australian / New Zealand standard specifies minimum design, construction and performance requirements for child restraints in order to ensure a high level of protection for children placed in them. The purpose of the safety standard is to ensure that child restraints supplied on the Australian market have key safety features that reduce the associated risks of injury to a child involved in a motor vehicle accident.
This instrument declares the 2004, 20 versions of the Australian / New Zealand standard for child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles AS/NZS 1754, as varied, to be alternatives for complying with the safety standard for the purposes of section 106. Taken together, consultation with interested parties including manufacturers/suppliers of child restraints, State and Territory road authorities, State and Territory fair trading/consumer affairs agencies, consumer groups and child safety specialists strongly supports the continuing regulation of the supply of this product based on revision/update of the existing mandatory standard.Ĥ. Submissions from stakeholders were overwhelmingly in favour of retention of the safety standard. Nineteen submissions were received by the end of July 2014. The proposal was to move from use of a specific safety standard to use of the general provisions of the ACL. This consultation concerned a specific proposal to change the mechanism by which the voluntary standard, AS/NZS 1754, is supported. On the basis of the comments received and further discussion and research by the ACCC, another Consultation Paper seeking stakeholder views and further information was released in June 2014. Eighteen submissions were received, including from suppliers, manufacturers, laboratories, state and territory road authorities, industry associations, safety researchers, and child safety advocates.
This legislative instrument is not subject to sunsetting due to section 54 of the Legislation Act 2003.Īs a matter of good regulatory practice, the ACCC regularly reviews product safety standards to ensure they remain effective, efficient and appropriate and remain the best available solution, in the public interest, to an identified safety hazard.įollowing initial discussion with industry and advocacy groups, a Consultation Paper was released in November 2013 outlining proposed amendments to the standard, and was circulated to interested parties, including manufacturers, suppliers, State and Territory regulators, and consumer groups. This legislative instrument is not subject to disallowance due to section 44 of the Legislation Act 2003. The safety standard is a legislative instrument and is registered on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI) 21 of 2011 - Safety standard: Child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles. Safety requirements for the supply of child restraints are currently contained in Competition and Consumer Act 2010 - Consumer Protection Notice No. Subsection 106(1) provides that a person must not, in trade or commerce, supply consumer goods of a particular kind if a safety standard for consumer goods of that kind is in force and those goods do not comply with the standard. Subsection 105(1) of the ACL provides that the Commonwealth Minister may, by written notice published on the internet, declare that a standard prepared by, or approved by, Standards Australia, with variations specified in the notice, is a safety standard for consumer goods of a kind specified in the instrument. The TPA was renamed the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA) on 1 January 2011. The Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No.2) 2010 together with the Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Act (No.1) 2010, amended the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA) to implement a new national consumer law regime known as the Australian Consumer Law (ACL). The safety standard adopts requirements in the standard approved by Standards Australia, AS/NZS 1754 Child restraint systems for use in motor vehicles which was last revised in 2013. The safety standard ensures that child restraints supplied in the Australian market have key safety features considered appropriate to reduce the risk of injury to a child involved in a motor vehicle accident. This Regulatory Instrument provides an updated safety standard for child restraints for use in motor vehicles. Safety standard: Child Restraint Systems for use in motor vehicles. Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Small Business, the Hon.
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