AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
CHILDREN’S FLAMMABLE NIGHTWEAR REGULATIONS
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
No. 4 of 1979

	The Children’s Flammable Nightwear (Amendment) Ordinance 1979 amended the Children’s Flammable Nightwear Ordinance 1975 to provide that children’s nightwear be classified into three categories and labelled in accordance with Australian Standards for the time being prescribed.

	The Children’s Flammable Nightwear Regulations prescribe Parts 1, 2 and 3 of Australian Standard 1249, Children’s Night Clothes Having Reduced Fire Hazard, for the purposes of the definitions of Category 1, Category 2 and Category 3 garments, respectively.

	The Regulations also prescribe Australian Standard 1989, Classification and Labelling of Children’s Night Clothes for Fire Hazard, for the purposes of labelling classified garments; and Part 3 of Australian Standard 1176, Methods of Test for Combustion Characteristics of Textile Materials as the method of testing samples.