COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
 
Trade Practices Act 1974
 
Consumer Protection Notice No 9 of 2008
 
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD FOR VEHICLE SUPPORT STANDS
 
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 vehicle support stands declared by consumer protection notice No 7 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
 
Vehicle support stands with a nominated capacity up to and including 1.5 tonnes.
 
Division 2: The Standards
 
Either:
 
(a)                Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2538:1995 Vehicle Support Stands, approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 25 January 1995;
 
Or
 
(b)               Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2538:2004 Vehicle Support Stands, approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 7 April 2004.
 
Division 2: Variations
 
Standard AS/NZS 2538:1995 is varied by:
 
(a)     amending clause 1 by adding the following after the word “stands”:
 
“up to and including 1.5 tonnes”
 
Standard AS/NZS 2538:2004 is varied by:
 
(a)     amending clause 1 by adding the following after the word “stands”:
 
“up to and including 1.5 tonnes”
 
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