| Product | Summary |
| Baby dummies | Requires baby dummies to comply with the Fair Trading (Safety Standard) (Babies' Dummies) Regulations 2007 that adopt and apply, with amendments, Australian Standard AS 2432 - 1991. |
| Baby Walkers | Requires baby walkers to comply with sections 6.1, 6.4, and 9.3 of F 977-00, the American Society for Testing and Materials Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Walkers, published in July 2000 and available from the website www.astm.org. |
| Basketball Rings and Backboards | Requires suppliers of basketball rings and backboards to place labels on their products warning about the dangers of improper use and installation. |
| Bunk Beds | Requires bunk beds to comply with the essential safety requirements of Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 4220:1994. |
| Children's portable folding cots (portacots) | Requires children's portable cots (portacots) to comply with the requirements of the Australian Standard AS/NZS 2195:1995 Folding cots - Safety requirements. Portable folding cots must meet the Fair Trading (Safety Standard) (Children's Portable Folding Cots) Regulations 2008.
View the Fact Sheet |
| Disposable Cigarette Lighters | Requires that all disposable cigarette lighters must be child proof, and sets requirements for ignition and adjustment of flame; abnormal burning; flame height; flame extinction and structural safety; identification of manufacturer or distributor. |
| Hot Water Bottles | Requires all hot water bottles to comply with the Fair Trading (Safety Standard) (Hot Water Bottles) Regulations 2008, issued on 29 May 2008.
View the Fact Sheet |
| Prams and strollers | Requires prams and strollers to comply with the Fair Trading (Safety Standard) (Prams and Strollers) Regulations 2008. This adopts and applies certain requirements of the Australian/New Zealand standard 2088:2000, Prams and strollers—safety requirements.
To purchase a copy:
View the Fact Sheet |
| Toys for Children under 3 | Adopts certain requirements of Australian Standard AS 1647 Part 2-1992. |
| Product | Summary |
| Baby Bath Supports | Prohibits the supply of baby bath supports where the bath supports and the packaging are not permanently marked with the warning: "WARNING-Children have DROWNED while using bath aids. ALWAYS keep baby within arm's reach. NEVER leave baby in care of children."
View the Fact Sheet |
| Balloon-blowing kits | Novelties designed for blowing balloon-like shapes from a substance containing polyvinyl acetate, ethyl acetate, acetone or benzene. |
| Balloon-blowing kits | Novelties designed for blowing balloon-like shapes from a substance, which contains benzene, including but not limited to 'ABC Blowing Balloon'. |
| BB Air Sport Gun and similar toy guns | BB Air Sport Gun also known as Pietro Beretta and other similar products being toy guns that do not comply with clauses 7.15.3(a) and/or 7.15.3(b) of Australian Standard AS 1647.2-1992. |
| Bead toys containing 1,4-Butanediol including 'Bindeez' bead toys | Prohibits the supply of Bead toys including 'Bindeez' bead toys containing 1,4- Butanediol and replaces the initial interim ban. Bindeez beads toys are little beads that join with a spray of water to create pictures and patterns.
View the Permanent ban order (PDF, 272KB)
View the Fact Sheet (PDF, 106KB)
View the Bindeez Beads Warning Notice (PDF, 9KB) |
| Blinds and curtains (corded internal window coverings) | Prohibits the supply of corded internal window coverings that do not meet the requirements set out in the Fixed Term Ban Order. The requirements seek to prevent the cords becoming a strangulation hazard by keeping blind and curtain cords out of reach of children.
View the Fixed Term Ban Order (PDF, 303 KB)
View the Curtain and Blind Cords factsheet (PDF, 219 KB) |
| Candle holders and candle decorations | Any object intended to hold or decorate a candle which can be ignited by the candle and continue to flame for a period of 5 seconds or more after ignition. |
| Candles with wicks that contain lead (Pb) | Amendment to the previous order No. G45, 11/11/99. Prohibits the supply of candles with wicks and candle wicks that contain greater than 0.06% lead by weight. |
| Child's cot restraints | "Baby Safe Cot or Bed Restraint", "Sleepsafe Suit","Zewi Safety Cover", 'Johnco Safety Sleep", being devices which are designed or intended to bodily restrain an infant or child in a cot or bed. |
| Children's cots for household use | Prohibits the supply of children's cots, both new and second hand, which do not comply with certain clauses of AS/NZS 2172-1995 and AS/NZS 2172-2003. Note: AS/NZS 2172-1995 will cease to have effect from 1 November 2006.
The ban applies to antique or collectable cots if they are sold without:
- a certificate warning that it is not safe to place a child in the cot, and;
- two permanently fixed metal plaques with the words "WARNING: this cot doesn't meet the mandatory standard. For display purposes only. It is dangerous to place a child in this cot."
View copy of Ban Order (PDF, 65Kb)
View Choosing a cot factsheet (PDF, 83Kb) |
| Children's Nightclothes and Paper Patterns for Children's Nightclothes | Prohibits the supply of children's nightclothes which do not comply with the Commonwealth Consumer Product Safety Standard for Children's Nightwear and Limited Daywear Having Reduced Fire Hazard made for the purposes of section 65C of the Trade Practices Act. |
| Expanding Toys | "Magic Eggs", "Wonder Growing Pet", "Instant Sea Life", or any other similar product being small plastic toys and/or novelties which have two dimensions less than 45mm and which expand considerably in liquid. |
| Fire Footbag and similar products | When used as intended, the "Fire Footbag" becomes a flaming ball
and/or a flaming missile with clear potential to cause serious burns to the user and others by directly burning the skin or by igniting nearby flammable materials. This fixed term ban order prohibits the supply of "Fire Footbags" and similar products.
Ban Order (PDF, 282KB)
Media Release |
| Folding Chairs | This permanent ban order prohibits the supply of any folding chair (including a chair known as the "York" folding chair) with hinged or pivoting sections, and where the distance between components forming a trapping space is less than 5mm and the seat is not permanently connected to the back of the chair. |
| Gas Masks | Gas masks containing asbestos filter. |
| Ice Pipes | Objects, including but not limited to "ice pipes" that are used, intended for use or designed for use in smoking or inhaling into the human body methamphetamine crystals (also known by other names including "ice" and crystal meth". |
| Imitation Baby's Dummies | Prohibits the supply of imitation baby's dummies and objects that resemble a baby's dummy in appearance and size (eg. Flashing Pacifier), which do not comply with the requirements of the Australian Standard AS 2432 - 1991. The small components of imitation dummies may cause serious injury or death. |
| Imitation Cigarette Lighter and Refill | Toys or novelties which when used spray a foam containing flammable gases including "Mad Dog Lighter" imitation cigarette lighter and "Mad Dog Lighter" refill can. |
| Jelly cup confectionery | Any jelly cup confectionery containing "konjac" (also known as conjac, konnyaku, konjonac, taro powder, yam flour or glucomannan) supplied in a container having a height or width less than 45 mm. |
| Monkey bikes | Monkey bikes that do not meet the safety standards set out in the ban order. For further information, go to:
- Ban order (PDF | 56Kb)
- Consumer Affairs Victoria fact sheets on:
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| Novelty Lighters | Novelty lighters, which are cigarette lighters designed with a toy-like appearance that could be appealing, attractive, or intended for use by children under five years of age.
An interim ban order is in place for this product. |
| Poisonous Seeds in Novelties | Being toys or novelties, which incorporate seeds of ABRUS PRECATORIUS, also known as Crab's Eye, Gidee-Gidee, Precatory Bean, Rosary Pea, and Jequirity Bean. |
| Safety Pins | Known as "Kiddies Baby Nappy Pins". Plastic cover is easily removed from head of safety pin. |
| Sky Lanterns | Sky lanterns are constructed from paper or fabric and rely on an open flame to produce hot air. The lanterns then inflate and float on the air currents. Once the lanterns are released there is no way to control where they will travel or land.
An interim ban order is in place for this product. |
| Skimmer Boxes | A potty shaped skimmer box, which forms part of the filtration system in spa pools and swimming pools, is of open construction and integrally moulded into the structure of the pool and does not have a fixed lid (being of a lid which can only be removed by the use of a tool). |
| Soccer Goals (Movable/Portable) | Movable soccer goals must meet certain requirements to prevent accidents, including an ability to withstand a certain hanging weight. They should also be anchored and contain a warning message.
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| Toothpaste | Toothpaste containing more than 0.25% by weight of DEG because the goods may cause death or serious injury. View ban order (PDF, 253KB) |
| Toy Guns | This permanent ban order prohibits the supply of the "Pull-Back Action Target Game" and similar products that possess projectiles in the form of suction cap darts where the darts are small enough, to fit in any way, into the small parts cylinder, thereby causing a choking hazard. |
| Toy Guns | This permanent ban order prohibits the supply of projectile toys that are designed to shoot projectiles with enough force to cause serious eye injuries. |
| Toys Containing Lead | Children’s toys containing lead must comply with Australian Standard/New Zealand Standard AS AS/NZS 8124.3:2003, in accordance with the permanent ban order (PDF, 283KB) gazetted on 10 June 2009.
The ban prohibits supply in Victoria of toys containing leachable lead with a lead migration level greater than 90 mg/kg, measured in accordance with the testing procedures specified in Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2003 ‘Safety of toys, Part 3: Migration of certain elements’.
This permanent ban order extends the previous 18 month fixed term ban order gazetted on 25 September 2007. This extension is to facilitate the implementation of the new mandatory standard, 'Safety Standard for Lead and Certain Elements in Children's toys' to come into effect on 1 January 2010. |
| Water Skiing Line Release System | Being a water skiing line release system known as "Quickie". |
| YO-YO Balls | All liquid filled novelty balls (with or without nodules) that are connected by a stretchable or elasticised cord that is capable of extending to at least 500 mm in length with or without a small loop at one end to put a finger through, including but not limited to YO-YO Water Hammer Balls, YO-YO Sports Balls, YO-YO Water Ball, YO -YO Squeeze Ball, YO-YO Meteoric Balls, YO-YO Light Balls, Water YO-YO and YO Balls. |
| Reference to 'All liquid filled novelty balls' should instead read 'All liquid and/or novelty filled balls or shapes'. |