Australian Consumer Law

 

Chapter 3 - Specific Protections

Part 3-3 - Safety of consumer goods and product related services

Division 2 - Bans on consumer goods and product related services

Subdivision A - Interim bans

109 Interim bans on consumer goods or product related services that will or may cause injury to any person etc.

(1) A responsible Minister may, by written notice published on the internet, impose an interim ban on consumer goods of a particular kind if:

(a) it appears to the responsible Minister that:

(i) consumer goods of that kind will or may cause injury to any person; or

(ii) a reasonably foreseeable use (including a misuse) of consumer goods of that kind will or may cause injury to any person; or

(b) another responsible Minister has imposed, under paragraph (a), an interim ban:

(i) on consumer goods of the same kind; or

(ii) on consumer goods of a kind that includes those goods;

and that ban is still in force.

(2) A responsible Minister may, by written notice published on the internet, impose an interim ban on product related services of a particular kind if:

(a) it appears to the responsible Minister that:

(i) as a result of services of that kind being supplied, consumer goods of a particular kind will or may cause injury to any person; or

(ii) a reasonably foreseeable use (including a misuse) of consumer goods of a particular kind, to which such services relate, will or may cause injury to any person as a result of such services being supplied; or

(b) another responsible Minister has imposed, under paragraph (a), an interim ban:

(i) on product related services of the same kind; or

(ii) on product related services of a kind that includes those services;

and that ban is still in force.

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