The Hong Kong Government is planning to adopt updated safety standards for a range of toys and products sold for use by children.
Changes are proposed to the Toys and Children’s Products Safety Ordinance (Cap. 424), which stipulates that a person must not manufacture, import or sell a toy or Schedule 2 product unless it complies with all the applicable requirements of the safety standards.
The updated Hong Kong toy standards apply toys and for four classes of Schedule 2 products, namely “babies’ dummies”, “carry cots and similar handled products and stands”, “children’s high chairs and multi-purpose high chairs for domestic use” and “children’s paints”.
The standards specified are mostly international standards or standards adopted by major economies.
“The Government keeps in view updates to the standards so as to apply up-to-date, operative versions to products supplied in Hong Kong,” it said in a statement.
Public consultation will now commence before the changes are mandated.
Details of the proposal are set out in a consultation note available on the website of the Commerce, Industry and Tourism Branch of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau.
Retailers and other members of the public are welcome to send their views on the proposal in writing to the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau at 23/F, West Wing, Central Government Offices, 2 Tim Mei Avenue, Tamar, Hong Kong, or by email to tcpso_standards_updates@cedb.gov.hk, on or before December 1, 2015.