Queensland Consolidated Acts

FAIR TRADING ACT 1989 - SECT 83

83 Safety standards

(1) A regulation may prescribe a safety standard for a specified kind of services.

(3) A prescribed safety standard for services shall consist of such requirements as to—

(a) the manner in which services are to be supplied; and

(b) the form and manner of disclosure of warnings, instructions or other information to be communicated to a person to whom services are to be supplied;

as are reasonably necessary to prevent or reduce risk of injury, including physical, mental or psychological injury, to any person.

(4) A regulation under this section may be made to apply subject to—

(a) the means of supply or the class of contract, agreement or act that constitutes the supply; or

(b) the persons to whom services are supplied or by whom they are likely to be used; or

(c) the purpose for which services are acquired; or

(d) any exemption or circumstance defined in the regulation.