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Fair Trading Act 1986

Product safety

30A: Product safety policy statements

You could also call this:

“The Minister can make, change, or cancel rules to help keep products safe”

The Minister can create a product safety policy statement if they think it’s needed. This statement can be about any type of goods and helps consumers, retailers, and manufacturers understand how to keep those goods safe.

The Minister can change, cancel, or replace these statements whenever they want. But before they do any of these things, they must talk to people who will be affected by the statement. These people get a chance to share their thoughts, and the Minister has to think about what they say.

The chief executive has to make sure everyone can see these statements on the Ministry’s website. They can also share the statements in other ways if they think it’s a good idea.

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Part 3 Product safety

30AProduct safety policy statements

  1. The Minister may, if the Minister considers it necessary or desirable, issue a product safety policy statement that—

  2. relates to goods of any description or any class or classes of goods; and
    1. provides guidance on the safety of those goods to consumers, retailers, and manufacturers.

      1. The Minister may, at any time, amend, revoke, or replace a product safety policy statement.

      2. However, the Minister must not issue, amend, revoke, or replace a product safety policy statement unless—

      3. the Minister has consulted such persons or representatives of such persons as the Minister considers will be substantially affected by the proposed statement, and those persons have had the opportunity to comment to the Minister; and
        1. the Minister has considered any such comments.

          1. The chief executive—

          2. must ensure that a copy of every statement issued, amended, or replaced under this section or under section 30B is available to the public, at all reasonable times, on an Internet site maintained by or on behalf of the Ministry; and
            1. may make copies of statements available in any other way that the chief executive considers appropriate in the circumstances.

              Notes
              • Section 30A: inserted, on , by section 18 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 143).