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Safety of Toys (Amendment) Regulations, 2014
Statutory Text (3 Articles)
Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta, Nru. 19,262, 3 ta’ Ġunju, 2014 B 1989
L.N. 188 of 2014
PRODUCT SAFETY ACT
(CAP. 427)
Safety of Toys (Amendment) Regulations, 2014
IN exercise of the powers conferred by articles 38 and 39 of the
Product Safety Act, Minister for Social Dialogue, Consumer Affairs
and Civil Liberties, on the advice of the Malta Competition and
Consumer Affairs Authority, has made the following regulations:-
(1)
The title of these regulations is the Safety of Toys Citation and
(Amendment) Regulations, 2014, and these regulations shall be read scope.
and construed as one with the Safety of Toys, hereinafter referred to S.L.427.40
as "the principal regulations".
(2) These regulations transpose Commission Directive 2009/
48/EC on the Safety of Toys.
Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 2 of the principal Amends
regulation 2 to
regulations shall be substituted by the following
the principal
regulations.
"(2)
These regulations shall not apply, in particular, to
the following products
(a)
playground equipment intended for public
use;
(b) automatic playing machines, whether coin
operated or not, intended for public use;
(c)
toy vehicles equipped with combustion
engines;
(d)
toy steam engines;
(e)
slings and catapults;
(f) decorative
objects
for
festivities
and
celebrations;
(g) products for collectors, provided that the
product or its packaging bears a visible and legible
indication that it is intended for collectors of fourteen years
of age and above. Examples of this category are
(i)
detailed and faithful scale models,
(ii)
kits for the assembly of detailed scale
models,
(iii) folk dolls and decorative dolls and
other similar articles,
(iv)
historical replicas of toys, and
(v)
reproductions of real fire arms;
(h) sports equipment, including roller skates,
inline skates and skateboards, intended for children with a
body mass of more than 20kg;
(i) bicycles with a maximum saddle height of
more than 435mm, measured as the vertical distance from
the ground to the top of the seat surface, with the seat in a
horizontal position and with the seat pillar set to the
minimum insertion mark;
(j) scooters and other means of transport
designed for sport or which are intended to be used for
travel on public roads or public pathways;
(k) electrically driven vehicles which are
intended to be used for travel on public roads, public
pathways, or the pavement thereof;
(l) aquatic equipment intended to be used in
deep water, and swimming learning devices for children,
such as swim seats and swimming aids;
(m) puzzles with more than 500 pieces;
(n) guns and pistols using compressed gas, with
the exception of water guns and water pistols, and bows for
archery over 120cm long;
(o) fireworks, including percussion caps, which
are not specifically designed for toys;
(p) products and games using sharp-pointed
missiles, such as sets of darts with metallic points;
(q) functional educational products, such as
electric ovens, irons or other functional products operated
at a nominal voltage exceeding 24 volts which are sold
exclusively for teaching purposes under adult supervision;
(r) products intended for use for educational
purposes in schools and other pedagogical contexts under
the surveillance of an adult instructor, such as science
equipment;
(s) electronic equipment, such as personal
computers and game consoles, used to access interactive
software and their associated peripherals, unless the
electronic equipment or the associated peripherals are
specifically designed for an targeted at children and have a
play value on their own, such as specially designed
personal computers, keyboards, joy sticks or steering
wheels;
(t) interactive software, intended for leisure and
entertainment, such as computer games, and their storage
media, such as CDs;
(u)
babies’ soothers;
(v)
child-appealing luminaries;
(w) electrical transformers for toys;
(x) fashion accessories for children which are not
for use in play.".
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