Textile Names (Amendment) Order, 2007

Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 18,018, 12 ta’ Jannar, 2007

L.N. 9 of 2007

PRODUCT SAFETY ACT

(CAP. 427)

Textile Names (Amendment) Order, 2007

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>–

The title of this Order is the Textile Names (Amendment) Citation.

Order, 2007, and the Order shall be read and construed as one with the

Textile Names Order, 2000, hereinafter referred to as “the principal L.N. 185 of 2000.

Order”.

This Order transposes Commission Directive 2006#2#EC of 6

January 2006 and Commission Directive 2006#3#EC of 9 January 2006.

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

Schedule to the

item 44 there shall be added the following new item 45>

principal Order.

“45

elastomultiester

fibre formed by interaction

of two or more chemically

distinct linear macromolecules

in two or more distinct phases

(of which none exceeds 85% by

mass) which contains ester

groups as a dominant

functional unit (at least 85%)

and which, after suitable

treatment when stretched to one

and a half times its original

length and released, recovers

rapidly and substantially to its

initial length”.

Amends the Second

In the Second Schedule to the principal Order, immediately

after item 44 there shall be added the following new item 45>

“45

Elastomultiester

1,50”.

In paragraph 1 of Part 1 of the Fifth Schedule to the principal

Order, immediately after the words “and of the Council” there shall be

added the words “, as amended by Commission Directive 2006#2#EC”.

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