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The Nightwear (Safety) Regulations 1985
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- 1985 No. 2043
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Regulation 9
SCHEDULE 4REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO ADVERTISEMENTS
1. Subject to paragraph 2, any advertisement referred to in Regulation 9 shall indicate by means of the symbols shown below whether or not the pyjamas, babies' garments, cotton terry towelling bath robes (being children's nightwear) or adults' nightwear being advertised is made of fabric of a king which after having been washed in accordance with Regulation 11 is capable of complying with the flammability performance requirements—
(a)in the case of pyjamas, babies' garments, cotton terry towelling bath robes (being children's nightwear) and adults' nightwear not made of fabric of a kind which when washed in accordance with Regulation 11 is capable of complying with the flammability performance requirements:
The equilateral triangle shown above shall have red sides of not less than 10 millimetres in length, and the phrase “KEEP AWAY FROM FIRE” shall be in black 2 point letters.
(b)in the case of pyjamas, babies' garments, cotton terry towelling bath robes (being children's nightwear) and adults' nightwear made of fabric of a kind which after having been washed in accordance with Regulation 11 is capable of complying with the flammability performance requirements:
The rectangle shown above shall have green sides and shall be not less than 8 millimetres long and 6 millimetres wide. The phrase “LOW FLAM” shall be in black 4 point letters.
2.—(1) Any advertisement for pyjamas, babies' garments, cotton terry towelling bath robes (being children's nightwear) or adults' nightwear made of fabric of a kind which after having been washed in accordance with Regulation 11 is capable of complying with the flammability performance requirements may display the symbol shown in paragraph 1 (a) in addition to or in substitution for the symbol shown in paragraph 1(b).
(2) The appropriate wording, as prescribed by Schedule 2, may be used instead of the symbols prescribed by paragraph 1 and permitted by subparagraph (1), but a combination of such wording and such symbols shall not be used.
3. The advertisement shall enable any person reading it to ascertain the meaning of any symbol shown in paragraph 1 and used in the advertisement by a means of an explanation, appearing in the advertisement itself, or, in the case of an advertisement contained in a catalogue, elsewhere in the catalogue, of the meaning of the symbol.
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