Textile Names (Amendment) Order, 2005

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 17,794, 22 ta’ Lulju, 2005

L.N. 271 of 2005

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Textile Names (Amendment) Order, 2005

IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 to 40 of the

Product Safety Act, the Minister for Competitiveness and

Communications, on the advice of the Malta Standards Authority, has

made the following Order>–

(1) The title of these regulations is the Textile Names Citation and scope.

(Amendment) Order, 2005, and they shall be read and construed as one

with the Textile Name Order, 2000, (Order No. 46 of 2000), hereinafter L.N. 185 of 2000.

referred to as “the principal Order”.

(2) This Order transposes Directive 2004#34#EC of the

European Parliament and of the Council of the 23rd March, 2004.

In the First Schedule to the principal Order, immediately after Amends the First

Schedule

item 33 there shall be inserted the following new item 33A>

to the principal

Order.

Nos

Name

Fibre description

“33A

Polylactide

Fibre formed of linear macromolecules

having in the chain at least 85% (by mass)

of lactic acid ester units derived from

naturally occurring sugars, and which has

a melting temperature of at least 135 ºC”.

In the Second Schedule to the principal Order, immediately Amends the Second

Schedule

after item 33 there shall be inserted the following new item 33A>

to the principal

Order.

Fibre No.

Fibres

Percentages

“33A

Polylactide

1,50”.