“Chainsaw” means any powered machine which drives an exposed chain for the purposes of cutting and which is operated by being hand held. This excludes any driven chains which are operated at the end of a pole and which are generally referred to as “pole pruners”, “power pruners” or “long reach pruners”.

All chainsaws must comply with ISO 6535:2008 Portable chainsaws – chain brake performance.

First banned 24 September 2009 (The unsafe goods notice lasts for 18 months from this date)

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Unsafe Goods (Lead in children's toys) Indefinite Prohibition Notice 2009

Children’s toys which contain lead in their accessible parts at a migration level greater than 90 mg/kg of toy material are declared to be unsafe goods and are prohibited from supply indefinitely.

Migration level means the value calculated after testing in accordance with the procedures and result interpretation provisions of the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2003 entitled ‘Safety of toys, Part 3: Migration of certain elements’.

First banned 20 September 2007 and supply prohibited indefinitely from 26 March 2009.

Unsafe Goods (Hot Water Bottles) Notice 2007

Prohibits the supply of:

PVC and Rubber hot water bottles that do not:
- meet BS1970:2001 Hot water bottles manufactured from rubber and PVC specification
Rubber and (from 25 November 2007) PVC hot water bottles must also:
- show compliance of less than 36 months old with BS1970:2001 or BS:1970:2006 from a laboratory accredited to ISO17025.

Rubber hot water bottles that did not meet the British Standard were first banned 26 November 2004 and supply prohibited indefinitely from 11 December 2008.

Importer's Declaration of Conformity

Importers of hot water bottles (including hot water bottles made from PVC from 25 November 2007) will be required to produce to the New Zealand Customs Service a:

Test certificate, from an accredited laboratory to ISO 17025, certifying that the hot water bottles comply with British Standard BS 1970:2001 or BS 1970:2006 Hot water bottles manufactured from rubber and PVC Specification. The certificate must be less than 36 months old; and

Statutory declaration stating that the documents produced relate to the hot water bottles being imported. A sample copy of the declaration is available in Adobe Acrobat format (45 KB) (instructions for obtaining the viewer).

You will have to supply the statutory declaration to the New Zealand Customs Service [external website] to declare conformity to the requirement of the Unsafe Goods (Hot Water Bottles) Notice 2007.

Unsafe Goods (Candles and Candlewicks) Notice 2001

Prohibits the supply of:

Candles containing greater than 0.06% lead by weight in their wicks
Candlewicks containing greater than 0.06% lead by weight.

Replaced the Unsafe Goods (Candles and Candlewicks) Notice 2001 which did not allow for tolerances of accidental and possibly unavoidable trace elements of lead and which came in to effect in June 2000.

Supply prohibited indefinitely from January 2002.

Unsafe Goods (Pistol Crossbows) Notice 1988

Prohibits the supply of:

The Ninja pistol crossbow
The Barnett Phantom crossbow
Any pistol crossbow, which does not have a safety-catch on the firing mechanism.

First banned April 1988, and supply prohibited indefinitely from 20 October 1989.

Unsafe Goods (No Holes Tongue Stud) Notice 2005

Prohibits the supply of:

No Holes Tongue Stud or similar: a small plastic bead with an opening on one side only, which acts to create a vacuum; and is intended for use as jewellery on the human tongue, without the need for piercing.

First banned 9 December 2005 - (Not Current - Expired 2007)

Unsafe Goods (Tian Mao Water Colour Paints Sets) Notice 2008

Prohibits the supply of:

water colour paint or painting sets for art and crafts packaged under the name Tian Mao Panda brand
water colour paint or painting sets with the product code TM-9018: and
water colour paint or painting sets for art and crafts featuring the identified logo:

First banned 3 April 2008 (The unsafe goods notice lasts for 18 months from 3 April 2008 and then will cease to have effect).

The control of this and any other similar product has now been brought about by the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA).

ERMA has issued a group standard for graphic materials. The group standard is issued in accordance with the requirements of Part 6A of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act 1996, and came into force in June 2009.

The Graphic Materials Group Standard applies to the import, manufacture and sale of children’s graphic materials, including crayons, water colour paints and finger paints.

Graphic materials that do not meet the scope of this group standard may be covered by the Surface Coatings and Colourants Group Standards and face paints are cosmetic products and are covered by the Cosmetic Products Group Standard.

Further information available from the ERMA website [external website]

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