New Zealand Legislation: Acts

30 Compliance with product safety standards

• (1) If a product safety standard in respect of goods relates to a matter specified in section 29(1), a person must not supply, or offer to supply, or advertise to supply those goods unless that person complies with that product safety standard.

  (2) If 2 or more product safety standards in respect of goods relate to a matter specified in section 29(1), a person must not supply, or offer to supply, or advertise to supply those goods unless that person complies with one of those product safety standards.

  (3) Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (2) applies to goods that are intended for use outside New Zealand if there is applied to the goods—

  • (a) a statement that the goods are for export only; or

  • (b) a statement indicating, by the use of words authorised by regulations made under this section, that the goods are intended to be used outside New Zealand,—

  and it must be presumed for the purposes of this section, unless the contrary is established, that the goods so identified are intended to be so used.

  (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), a statement is deemed to be applied to goods if the statement is—

  • (a) woven in, impressed on, worked into, or annexed or affixed to the goods; or

  • (b) applied to a covering, label, reel, or thing in or with which the goods are supplied.

  Section 30: substituted, on 28 July 1997, by section 4 of the Fair Trading Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 43).