✨ Graphic Materials Group Standard 2009
18 MAY 2009
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 69
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the Group Standard, but is intended to provide guidance to users of the Group Standard.
(1) All graphic materials must have an approval under the Act by means of either this Group Standard or a Surface Coatings and Colourants Group Standard. This Group Standard is the sole means of compliance for finger paints, children’s crayons and children’s water colour paints. Graphic materials which cannot meet the scope of this Group Standard, and are not finger paints, children’s crayons or children’s water colour paints, may fit within the scope of other relevant Surface Coatings and Colourants Group Standards (http://www.ermanz.govt.nz/hs/groupstandards/standards/scc.html).
(2) Face paints are not water colour paints or finger paints. Face paints are cosmetic products. A cosmetic product means any product or preparation intended to be placed in contact with the various external parts of the human body (epidermis, hair system, nails, lips and external genital organs) or with the teeth and the mucous membranes of the oral cavity with a view exclusively or mainly to cleaning them, perfuming them, changing their appearance and/or correcting body odours and/or protecting them or keeping them in good condition. Cosmetic products are regulated under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act through the Cosmetic Products Group Standard 2006.
(3) Clause 4 of this Group Standard sets out the parameters that determine whether or not a substance is covered by this Group Standard. It is the responsibility of the manufacturer or importer of a substance to determine whether or not the substance complies with these parameters.
(4) Schedule 1, Part 2 (2) of this Group Standard requires that, where compliance is demonstrated by laboratory testing, such testing/analysis must be undertaken by an IANZ accredited laboratory or equivalent. The Group Standard does not specify the particular test methodology that should be employed. It is expected that accredited laboratories will select the appropriate test methodology. The Agency considers that acceptable test methods will include those specified in the British Standard EN 71.3 or the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2003.
(5) Schedule 1, Part 3 (3) (1) of the Group Standard requires that the manufacturer or importer of a substance who determines, or is otherwise independently advised, that the substance complies with clause 4 of this Group Standard (Scope of Group Standard) must keep a record of that determination or advice. Such records must be available for inspection for as long as the substance is available in New Zealand.
Availability and publication of Reference Materials
(6) Any regulations incorporated by reference into a Group Standard may be—
(a) inspected free of charge during normal business hours at the ERMA New Zealand office; or
(b) purchased from Bennetts at http://www.bennetts.co.nz/legislation.htm; or
(c) viewed at http://www.legislation.govt.nz
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