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Timbermate Products Pty Ltd (Timbermate) carries on business as a manufacturer, importer and distributor of hardware products and supplies including a moulded rubber tie down strap branded “Quickties”.
Between mid 2005 and September 2008 Timbermate supplied Quickties with a paper based warning label to a range of hardware and other retailers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the Mandatory Standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The Mandatory Standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Kyberguard Pty Ltd, trading as Soldsmart, is a company that operates an online sales website at www.soldsmart.com.au, advertising and selling a variety of products including ride-on car toys for children of varying ages.
Between 30 November 2007 and 11 June 2008 Soldsmart advertised for sale two types of ride on car toys for children under the age of 36 months, that had small moveable parts:
Item BC7608RD – Sliding Tractor/Truck
Item RC6410PK – Electric Hot Rod Race Car
These products were independently tested to ascertain whether they complied with the Australian Standard. Results identified that both products failed to comply with the Australian Standard, in that parts broke off during testing.
Soldsmart acknowledges that it failed to comply with the Australian Standard, contravening section 65C of the Trade Practices Act.
Soldsmart has undertaken to the ACCC that it will:
Recall the products and offer a refund to all customers who have purchased these products;
Establish and implement a Trade Practices Compliance Program
Maintain and continue to implement the Trade Practices Compliance Program
Ensure that all products sold by Soldsmart that are subject to a prescribed consumer product safety standard or information standard under the TPA comply with the relevant standard; and
Ensure that any test reports for products advertised for sale by Soldsmart are not more than 12 months old, and are supplied by an Australian NATA accredited testing agency or equivalent overseas agency.
JB Hi-Fi Group Pty Ltd (JB Hi-Fi) is a retailer that supplies a wide range of products, including mobile phones, televisions, DVD recorders, computers, iPod players, home theatre products, music, games, car sound, digital cameras, printers and accessories.
Since June 2007, JB Hi-Fi entered the mobile consumer electronic and telecommunications market and supplied mobile phones and accessories in all its 98 stores around Australia.
In June 2008, a customer purchased what was represented to her as being a new Nokia mobile phone for $80 from the JB Hi-Fi store in Kotara Westfield in NSW.
Stamford Hotels Pty Ltd (Stamford Hotels) is the owner and operator of the Stamford Grand North Ryde (the Hotel).
Mark Hawkins, Merin Hawkins and Medalist (Victoria) Pty Ltd carry on business in partnership (the Medalist partnership) as a wholesale supplier of hand tools to the retail hardware and nursery industries.
Between 18 July 2007 and 22 August 2008 the Medalist partnership supplied certain Medalist branded elastic luggage straps (the Medalist straps) to its retail customers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Brilliant Signs Pty Ltd carries on business as a hardware wholesaler which includes the wholesaling of elastic luggage straps.
On 31 August 2007 Brilliant Signs supplied certain SSA branded elastic luggage straps to one of its customers for retail sale to consumers.
This was the only occasion on which Brilliant Signs supplied the SSA branded elastic luggage straps.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Service Station Supplies (Aust) Pty Ltd (SSSA) carries on business as a wholesaler of car care and convenience products to retail service stations and convenience store operators.
Between about June 2004 and July 2008 SSSA supplied certain SSA and MGR branded elastic luggage straps (the SSA and MGR straps) to its service station and convenience store operator customers.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Mitre 10 Australia Limited (Mitre 10) is a wholesaler of hardware products which includes elastic luggage straps.
Between June 2007 and August 2008 Mitre 10 imported and distributed elastic luggage straps packaged under its private label brand ‘Warrior Bungee Cord’. Each package of the Warrior Bungee Cord included 14 elastic luggage straps in a variety of sizes and colours.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
There is a prescribed consumer product safety standard for elastic luggage straps (the standard) that applies to an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity and which is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The standard requires an elastic luggage strap to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.
Bunnings Group Limited is a major retailer of home improvement products in Australia. One of the products sold by Bunnings is a rubber luggage strap known as Quickties Tie Down Strap (Quickties).
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is responsible for ensuring compliance with prescribed consumer product safety standards under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA).
The TPA includes such a standard for elastic luggage straps.
An elastic luggage strap is defined in the relevant standard as including an elastic strap or cord having a hook, buckle or other fastening device at each extremity that is designed to be used for the purpose of securing luggage or other objects.
The ACCC is of the view Quickties are an elastic luggage strap.
The relevant standard requires elastic luggage straps to have permanently attached a label bearing the following warning (the Warning Label);
WARNING.