South Australian Consolidated Acts

ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS ACT 2000 - SECT 9

9—Mutual recognition

        (1)         For the purposes of—

            (a)         section 5 of the Mutual Recognition (South Australia) Act 1993 and section 15 of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth; and

            (b)         section 5 of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition (South Australia) Act 1999 and section 46 of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 of the Commonwealth,

an electrical product the sale of which is prohibited by public notice given at any time under section 8 on the ground that the product is or is likely to become unsafe in use is declared—

            (c)         to be goods to which section 15 of the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth applies; and

            (d)         to be exempt from the operation of the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 of the Commonwealth.

        (2)         The exemption from the Mutual Recognition Act 1992 of the Commonwealth and the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Act 1997 of the Commonwealth of an electrical product pursuant to subsection (1) has effect for a period beginning on the day on which the public notice imposing the prohibition is published and ending—

            (a)         12 months later; or

            (b)         on the revocation of the prohibition,

whichever occurs first.

        (3)         In this section, a reference to a Commonwealth Act includes a reference to that Act as amended and in force for the time being and to an Act passed in substitution for that Act.