DOCUMENTATION AND OTHER VENDOR REQUIREMENTS FOR LIST OF DECLARED ARTICLES

ELECTRICAL SAFETY REPORT COVERING:

DECART
LIST OF DECLARED ARTICLES (NSW, as of  Sept 2023)

WHAT IS A DECLARED ARTICLE?
All mains powered appliances sold in Australia need to meet their relevant AS/NZS electrical safety standard. Consumer law obliges  companies manufacturing or importing mains powered items to obtain proof that their product does in fact meet local safety standards, normally in the form of a safety test report from a certified laboratory. 
With certain high-risk items you have to go a step further, and have your safety report examined  by a suitably qualified and  licensed "certifying body", who will then issue a certificate confirming that the testing in the report was correctly done and is  to the right standard.  That document is called an "Approval Certificate".
Items requiring an Approval Certificate for legal sale in Australia are variously referred to as "Declared," "Proclaimed" or "Prescribed" articles, depending on the state. 
With a few minor exceptions, an approval issued in any Australian State or New Zealand, will automatically be recognized in all other States or NZ.
Generally, declared articles are mostly either 240V-carrying items that are hand-held in use (eg kitchen and workshop tools), heat-generating items that are intended to be left running unattended for long periods (lights, heaters, cooking appliances etc) or compact power supplies with output connectors accessible to users.
Generally, if it's not on this list, it's not declared.
Additionally, all companies supplying declared articles in Australia and NZ have to register them on the EESS database. This is now mandatory in all States except NSW, but unless you product is only ever going to be sold in NSW, it is effectively mandatory for all states.

This is the current list of declared articles. 

Air Conditioners incorporating flammable refrigerant
Appliance connectors
Arc welding machines
Battery chargers
Bread toasters
Christmas and festival lights
Clothes dryers
Control and conditioning devices
Cord line switches
DC Isolator
Decorative lighting
Dishwashers
Electric blankets
Evaporative coolers
Extra-low voltage supply
Fans
Fence energisers
Flexible heating pads
Floor polishers/scrubbers
Fluorescent lamp ballasts and starters
Hairdryers
Heaters
Hedge trimmers
Immersion heaters
Insect electrocutors
Inspection headlamps
Irons
Jugs
Kitchen machines
Lampholders – bayonet, edison and adaptors
Lawn care appliances
Lighting
Liquid heating appliances (includes rice cookers)
Massagers
Microwave ovens
Miniature overcurrent circuit breakers
Nightlights
Outlet devices
Plugs
Portable cooking appliances (includes blenders and frying pans)
Portable lamps
Power tools
Pressure storage water heaters
Projectors
Ranges and range hoods
Razors and hair clippers
Refrigerators/freezers
Residual current devices (safety switches)
Self-ballasted LED lamps
Sewing machines
Socket outlets and adaptors
Soldering irons
Supply flexible cords
Swimming pool and spa equipment
Television receivers
Therapeutic lamps
Vacuum cleaners
Wall switches
Washing machines
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