Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Commissioner
may take whatever action he considers necessary to warn the public of the
danger associated with any dangerous goods or goods that do not comply with
any applicable product safety standard, and, without limiting the generality
of that power, he may publish in any newspaper or by radio or television any
information as to the goods including the trade name and description of the
goods, and, if he considers it desirable, the names of the manufacturers and
suppliers of the goods that are known to him.
(2) The Commissioner
may publish a notice in writing in the Gazette containing one or both of the
following —
(a) a
statement that goods of a kind specified in the notice are under investigation
to determine whether the goods will or may cause injury to any person;
(b) a
warning of possible risks involved in the use of goods of a kind specified in
the notice.
(3) The Commissioner
shall, within 2 days after the publication of a warning under
subsection (1) or of a notice in the Gazette under subsection (2),
or, if it is not practicable to do so within that period, as soon as
practicable after the end of that period, either —
(a)
cause particulars of that warning or a copy of the notice to be given to each
person who, to the knowledge of the Commissioner, supplies goods of the kind
to which the warning or notice relates; or
(b)
cause particulars of that warning or a copy of the notice, as the case
requires, to be published in a newspaper circulating in that part of the State
where goods of the kind to which the notice relates are, to the knowledge of
the Commissioner, supplied.
(4) The Minister
shall, as soon as practicable after an investigation referred to in a notice
published under subsection (2) has been completed, by notice in writing
published in the Gazette , announce the results of the investigation, and may
announce in the notice whether, and if so, what action is proposed to be taken
in relation to the goods under this Part or the Consumer Affairs Act 1971
.