I, Michael Carter Tate, Minister of State for Justice and Consumer Affairs, in pursuance of section 65E of the Trade
Practices Act 1974, hereby:
(a)
revoke the consumer product safety standard in respect of protective helmets for motor cyclists published in
Gazette No. S221 of 19 May 1986;
(b)
declare that, in respect of goods of the kind specified in Division 1 of the Schedule to this notice,
the standard specified in Division 2 of the Schedule, as varied by the variations specified in Division 3 of the Schedule,
is a consumer product safety standard for the purposes of section 65C of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
Protective helmets for motor cyclists.
Australian Standard 1698-1988, ‘Protective Helmets for Vehicle Users’, published by the Standards Association of Australia on 9 May 1988.
The standard specified in Division 2 is varied by:
(i)
deleting from clause 4.4 ‘AS 1609’ and inserting ‘AS 1609-1981’;and
(ii)
deleting clause 8 (g).
Dated this tenth day of December 1990
Note the change from the earlier Trade Practices Act notices in the way the particulars of goods is written.
The TPA notices specified "Protective helmets for motor cyclists for use on public roads".