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Safety of Toys (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
Statutory Text (5 Articles)
Suppliment tal-Gazzetta tal-Gvern ta’ Malta Nru. 20,648, 22 ta’ Ġunju, 2021 B 2093
L.N. 267 of 2021
PRODUCT SAFETY ACT
(CAP. 427)
Safety of Toys (Amendment) Regulations, 2021
IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 38 and 39 of
the Product Safety Act, the Minister for Tourism and Consumer
Protection, on the advice of the Director General (Technical
Regulations), has made the following regulations:-
(1) The title of these regulations is the Safety of Toys Citation and
(Amendment) Regulations, 2021 and these regulations shall be read commencement.
and construed as one with the Safety of Toys Regulations, hereinafter S.L. 427. 40.
referred to as "the principal regulations".
(2) These regulations shall be deemed to have come into force
as follows
(a) regulations 1, 2 and 3 shall be deemed to have come
into force on 20 May 2021; and
(b) regulation 4 shall be deemed to have come into force
on 21 May 2021.
Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 1 of the principal Amends
regulation 1 of
regulations shall be amended as follows
the principal
regulations.
(a) in paragraph (g) thereof, the word "and" shall be
deleted; and
(b) immediately after paragraph (h) thereof there shall be
added the following new paragraphs
"(i) Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1922 of 18
November 2019 amending, for the purposes of adaptation
to technical and scientific developments, point 13 of part
III of Annex II to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as
regards aluminium; and
(j) Commission Directive (EU) 2019/1929 of 19
November 2019 amending Appendix C to Annex II to
Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of
the Council for the purpose of adopting specific limit
values for chemicals used in certain toys, as regards
formaldehyde.".
In point 15 of Part IV of Schedule I to the principal
regulations, the words "Aluminium 5625 1406 70000" shall be
substituted by the following
Aluminium
28130
".
In Schedule III to the principal regulations, immediately
after the words "2-methylisothiazolin-3(2H)-one" there shall be added
the following
"Formaldehyde
50-00-0
1,5 mg/l (migration
limit) in polymeric toy
material
0,1 ml/m3 (emission
limit) in resin-bonded
wood toy material
30 mg/kg (content limit)
in textile toy material
30 mg/kg (content limit)
in leather toy material
30 mg/kg (content limit)
in paper toy material
10 mg/kg (content limit)
in
water-based
toy
material
".
€0.09