Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The regulations
may prescribe a product safety standard for a specified kind of goods.
(2) A product safety
standard for goods shall consist of such requirements —
(a) as
to performance, composition, contents, methods of manufacture or processing,
design, construction, finish or packaging of the goods;
(b) as
to the testing of the goods during, or after the completion of, manufacture or
processing;
(c) as
to the form and content of markings, warnings or instructions to accompany the
goods or be placed on a vending machine for the goods or a display stand or
sign adjacent to the goods;
(d) as
to equipment, component parts or other accessories to be supplied with the
goods; or
(e)
otherwise relating to goods of that class or description,
as are reasonably
necessary to prevent or reduce risk of injury to a person.
(3) Regulations made
under subsection (1) may —
(a)
adopt either wholly or in part and either specifically or by reference any
Australian Standard or any of the standards, rules, codes or
specifications —
(i)
of Standards Australia; or
(ii)
of a specified prescribed body,
with or without
specified additions or variations; and
(b)
prescribe any specified 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).
(4) In this
section specified means specified in the regulations.
[Section 50 amended by No. 74 of 2003
s. 53(3).]