Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FAIR TRADING ACT 1987 - SECT 66

66 .         Prescribing of packaging standards

        (1)         The regulations may prescribe a packaging standard to be used for a specified kind of goods.

        (2)         A packaging standard for goods may consist of such requirements as are reasonably necessary to prevent deceptive packaging of goods and to ensure that goods are packaged for the reasonable convenience of persons to whom they may be supplied.

        (3)         Without limiting the generality of subsection (2), the regulations may — 

            (a)         prescribe or regulate the composition, shape, size, dimensions or thickness of the covering or containers in which goods are packaged;

            (b)         provide that the covering or containers in which goods are packaged shall not have any unoccupied space or more than a specified amount of unoccupied space;

            (c)         provided that the covering or containers in which goods are packaged shall not have any cavities or recesses or cavities or recesses of a specified kind;

            (d)         prescribe or regulate the mass or measure in which goods are to be packaged; and

            (e)         prescribe or regulate any other matter relating to the packaging of goods whether or not similar to the matters referred to in paragraphs (a), (b), (c) or (d).

        (4)         In this section, specified means specified in the regulations.