New Car seat regulations????

[Pandora]

the laws havent changed. Yet. They are changing in June.

[zada]

Starting June

1) Children must use rearward facing child restraints up to six months old.
2) Children six months up to their fourth birthday must use a rearward or forward facing child restraint with in-built harness
3) Children from four years up to their seventh birthday must use a booster seat
4) Children up to their fourth birthday must sit in the rear seat
5) Children up to seventh birthday to sit in rear seat unless all rear seats are already occupied by children under seven.
We would strongly recommend that from the ages of four to seven the additional Child Safety Harness is used in conjunction with a baby booster car seat to help restrain the upper part of a child?s body as well as keeping the belt around the hip area tight.

[Tam78]

Does that mean that there is no actual regulation on the type of booster for 4 yo's and up? I heard that they were going to outlaw the foam boosters and box boosters

[zada]

they are saying as long as its a high backed booster. They're trying to get rid of the booster cushions

[mjsmummy]

hi girls,

I'm a trained restraint fitter & do fitting almost daily, so feel free to shot questions at me.

first thing I need to say is please be careful what you listern to as there are a few places in victoria that have been giving out false or misleading inforamtion & please try not to worry yourself that you are doing anything wrong, yes you are correct in that the laws are due to change but it has NOT been implemented just yet, the first state to get the change will be WA in june 2009, as for the rest of the states it probably won't change till sometime in 2010 & I believe that the government is trying to have the changes the same across the board.

the best website to visit is the RTA website, I don't think funny enough vicroads has even updated their website yet. but the RTA website has the info on it and is very useful to read.

sorry if this is confusing, but like I said fel free to ask me questions if I can help I will

hope everyone has have a great easter

[westy]

Hi mjsmummy,

I'm in Qld and have been thinking about thw whole booster seat thing, my son will be 7 in August and i'm wondering if it is law for him to stay in a booster until he actually turns 7 or can i take him out now? His eye's are level with the top of the booster!

Thanks

[Inertia]

My 6yo is too big for a booster. Too heavy. All muscle so its not something we can reign in.

Haz has only just turned 3, but he is 15kgs - all muscle too. Car seats are only weighted to 18kgs - so I will need to put Haz in a booster much sooner. He is looking forward to it because it has Lightning McQueen on it, lol. I wanna clean the reversable for the baby anyway.

They say they are going by age because we - being parents - arent all going to be up on our kids height and weight... This still irks me. I know all 5 of my kids height and weight and will continue to use that as per the safety recommendations of the equipment I am using.