COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Trade Practices Act 1974
 
Consumer Protection Notice No 10 of 2008
 
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR TROLLEY JACKS
 
I, Chris Bowen, Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs, pursuant to subsection 65E (1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and for the purposes of section 65C of that Act, hereby:
 
(a)                REVOKE the consumer product safety standard for trolley jacks declared by consumer protection notice No 4 of 1997 published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. GN 11 of 19 March 1997;
 
(b)               DECLARE that in respect of goods of the kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this Notice, the standards approved by Standards Australia specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, as varied by Division 3 of the Schedule, are consumer product safety standards for the purposes of section 65C of the Trade Practices Act 1974. The standard at Division 2(a) of the Schedule to this Notice will cease to operate as a consumer product safety standard from 1 August 2009.
 
 
THE SCHEDULE
 
Division 1: Particulars of the goods
 
Trolley jacks with a nominated capacity up to and including 2.5 tonnes.
 
Division 2: The Standards
 
Either:
 
(a)                Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2615:1995 Hydraulic Trolley Jacks, approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 24 August 1995,
Or:
 
(b)               Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2615:2004 Hydraulic Trolley Jacks, approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 7 April 2004.
 
Division 3: Variations
 
Standard AS/NZS 2615:1995 is varied by:
 
(a)                Deleting clause 1 and substituting it with the following clause:
 
“1 SCOPE  This Standard specifies requirements for the design, construction, performance and labelling of hydraulic trolley jacks up to and including 2.5 tonnes, designed to lift vehicles.  It does not include devices that raise an entire vehicle.
 
Requirements for vehicle jacks, i.e. jacks in which the load is directly transferred from the head cap to the base, are specified in AS/NZS 2693.”;
 
(b)               Deleting clause 6.3.
 
Standard AS/NZS 2615:2004 is varied by:
 
(a)                Deleting clause 1 and substituting it with the following clause:
 
“1 SCOPE
 
This Standard specifies requirements for the design, construction, performance and labelling of hydraulic trolley jacks up to and including 2.5 tonnes, designed to lift vehicles.  It does not include devices that raise an entire vehicle.
 
Requirements for vehicle jacks, i.e. jacks in which the load is directly transferred from the head cap to the base, are specified in AS/NZS 2693.”;
 
(b)        Deleting clause 5.4(a);
 
(c)        Deleting clause 6.3 and substituting it with the following:
 
“6.3 Ease of operation
 
When the hydraulic trolley jack is tested in accordance with Appendix A and the operating force exceeds 450N, Appendix F shall be used to determine the maximum capacity of the hydraulic trolley jack using a maximum operating force of 450N.”;
 
(d)        Deleting clause 8(d).
 
Note:   The choice between two consumer product safety standards in this consumer product safety notice is available until 31 July 2009. From 1 August 2009 the standard at Division 2(b) of the Schedule will operate as the only consumer product safety standard in this consumer product safety notice.
 
Dated this 15th day of August 2008.
 
 
 
 
Chris Bowen
Minister for Competition Policy & Consumer Affairs