Western Australian Consolidated Acts

CONSUMER AFFAIRS ACT 1971 - SECT 23U

23U .         Regulations for safety requirements

        (1)         The Governor may, for the purpose of preventing or reducing risk of death, personal injury or disease, make regulations for or with respect to imposing with respect to any prescribed class or description of goods — 

            (a)         requirements, whether as to the composition of contents, design, construction, finish or packing of, or otherwise relating to, goods of that class or description or any component part thereof;

            (b)         requirements for securing that goods of that class or description or any component part thereof are in the prescribed manner (if any) marked with or accompanied by any prescribed warning or instructions or any warning or instructions of a prescribed nature.

        (2)         Regulations made under subsection (1) may — 

            (a)         apply either generally or in prescribed circumstances or subject to prescribed conditions;

            (b)         adopt either wholly or in part and either specifically or by reference any Australian Standard or any of the standard rules, codes or specifications of Standards Australia, as in force at the time of adoption or as amended from time to time;

            (c)         prescribe any class or description of goods, notwithstanding that the goods are for use only as component parts of other goods (whether or not those other goods are goods of a prescribed class or description).

        [Section 23U inserted by No. 90 of 1978 s. 7; amended by No. 74 of 2003 s. 40(3); No. 69 of 2006 s. 9.]