Australian Capital Territory 

Fair Trading (Vehicle Jacks) Standard 2004 (No 1)

Notifiable instrument NI2004— 236

made under the 

Fair Trading (Consumer Product Standards) Regulations 2002, regulation no 59

1	Name of instrument
	This instrument is the Fair Trading (Vehicle Jacks) Standard 2004 (No 1).
2	Commencement 
	This instrument commences on the day after it is notified.
3	Vehicle jacks standard

	The standard specified in Regulation 59 of the Fair Trading (Consumer Product Standards) Regulations 2002, at Schedule 1, is notified as the standard to apply to vehicle jacks in the ACT.

Jon Stanhope
Attorney General
19 July 2004

Schedule 1

COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

Consumer Protection Notice No. 15 of 2003

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY STANDARD – VEHICLE JACKS

I, Ross Cameron, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, pursuant to section 65E(1) of the Trade Practices Act 1974 and for the purposes of section 65C of that Act, hereby:

(a)	REVOKE the consumer product safety standard for vehicle jacks declared in Consumer Protection Notice No.5 of 1997 and published in Gazette GN 11 of 19 March 1997.

(b)	DECLARE that from the date of publication of this notice the consumer product safety standard for vehicle jacks with a nominated capacity of up to and including 8 tonnes is either of the two standards described in the Schedule below.

Schedule
The standards are either:

Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2693:2003 Vehicle jacks, published by Standards Australia on 20 March 2003, varied by:

(i)	Deleting clauses 5.8 and 6.3;
(ii)	In clause 6.7(c) deleting the words “using an operating force not exceeding that specified in Clause 6.3”; 
(iii)	In Appendix F, Clause F3(h), deleting the second sentence “Do not exceed the operating force specified in Clause 6.3”, and in Clause F4(c), deleting the words “without exceeding the operating force specified in Clause 6.3”.

or

Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 2693:1993 Vehicle Jacks, approved by Standards Australia on 17 May 1993, as amended by Amendment 1 of 11 April 1994, varied by deleting clause 5.9.

Dated this					day of 					2003

Ross Cameron
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer