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21 June 2021  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  JAMAICA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Bureau of Standards Jamaica  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
Regional and In ternational Trade Branch  
6 Winchester Road  
Kingston 10  
Jamaica W.I.  
Email: tbtenquirypoint@bsj.org.jm  Website: http://www.bsj.org.jm  
Tel.: 1 (876) 926 -3140-5/ (876) 618 -1534/ (876) 632 -4275; Fax: 1 (876) 929 -4736 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 5.7.1 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Toys ICS 
97.200.50; Toys (ICS 97.200.50)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Standard 
Specification for Safety of toys - Part 4 Swings, slides and similar activity toys for indoor 
and outdoor fa mily domestic use (70 pages), English Amendment 1, (6 pages), English 
Amendment 2, (8 pages), English (70 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This part of ISO 8124 specifies requirements and test methods 
for activity toys for domestic family u se intended for children under 14 years to play on 
or in.  
Products covered by this part of ISO 8124 include swings, slides, seesaws, carousels, 
rocking toys, climbing frames, fully enclosed toddler swing seats and other products 
intended to bear the mass o f one or more children.  
Products not included within the scope of this part of ISO 8124 are:  
a) fitness and sporting equipment unless attached to the activity toy;  
b) equipment intended for use in schools, day care centres, kindergartens, public 
playgrounds, restaurants, shopping centres and similar public places;  
c) juvenile care products such as, but not limited to, infant swings, playpens/enclosures, 
beds or furniture including picnic tables, cradle rockers and products specifically designed 
for therapeutic use.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  This standard was previously adopted however; the International 
Organization for Standardization (ISO) has since published an updated version of the G/TBT/N/JAM/99  
 
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  same standard. The adoption of the updated version of this standard is deemed necessary 
as children are the main consumers of toys and the protection of their health and safety 
is crucial. The objective and rationale is to establish requirements locally tha t will minimize 
potential hazards associated with toys resulting from their intended play modes (normal 
use) as well as unintended play modes (reasonably foreseeable abuse). This standard 
which promotes the protection of human health and safety will be ado pted as a 
compulsory standard.; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
A notice of the Safety of toys - Part 4 Swings, slides and similar activity toys for indoor 
and outdoor family domestic use  will appear in The Jamaica Gazette Supplement - 
Proclamations, Rules and Regulations. The document will appear as a Jamaican Standard 
Specification, with mandatory status, and will be available for sale.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  20 February 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  20 August 2022  
10. Final date for comments:  20 August 2021  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ)  
Regional & International Trade Branch  
Contacts: Ms Nadette Brown and Ms Tafara Smith  
6 Winchester Road  
Kingston 10  
 
+(876) -618-1534; +(876) -632-4275 
tbtenquirypoint@bsj.org.jm  
http://www.bsj.org.jm  
 