Consumer Product Safety Act (Act No. 31 of 1973).

The purpose of this Act is to regulate the manufacture and sale of specified products, to promote proper maintenance of specified maintenance products and to take measures, such as collecting and providing information regarding product accidents, thereby protecting the interests of general consumers, in order to prevent any danger caused by consumer products to the lives or bodies of general consumers. The Act applies also to the food described in article 4 (1) of the Food Sanitation Act (Act No. 233 of 1947); as well as to substances described in article 2(1) of the Poisonous and Deleterious Substances control Act (Act No. 303 of 1950). The text consists of 62 articles divided into 5 chapters as follows: General provisions (I); Specified products (II); Measures for product accidents (III); Miscellaneous provisions (IV); Penal provisions (V).