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The cord-safety rules state by state and federally: which instrument binds, where, from when, cited to the regulation itself.
Rules & compliance · National
The free registers record what a company is, not who owns it, and the ACCC’s mandatory merger register, published since 1 January 2026, starts at $200 million in combined Australian revenue. A chain of blinds stores does not come close, so the sale of one leaves no public trace. What a buyer can actually check before a deposit moves.
Rules & compliance · Queensland
ASIC records Made 2 Trade Pty Ltd, trading as TWO Australia, and All Shutters & Blinds Pty Ltd as under external administration. On the same day both ABNs read Active, which is the free check most buyers would do. What the gap means if you have already paid a deposit, and what ASIC's own guide for creditors says happens next.
Rules & compliance · National
MSF30926 has been current since 13 March 2026 and the National Training Register lists no RTO approved to deliver it. The qualification it replaced still has three providers, one of them suspended, and every one of their approvals ends on 11 March 2027.
Rules & compliance · National
MSF30926 Certificate III in Shading and Security Screens reached the National Training Register on 13 March 2026. The endorsed unit for installing interior blinds carries a child-safety performance criterion covering corded window furnishings and button batteries. Licensing, which would decide who has to hold it, was ruled outside the review's scope.
Rules & compliance · National
All eight states' and territories' rental minimum standards, read first-hand. One cord rule in force (Victoria), one announced but not shown (NSW), three presence-only standards, and three rule books that never mention a window covering at all.
Rules & compliance · Queensland
Nine minimum housing standards, none about cord safety. How the three east-coast states now compare, and what fills the gap.
Rules & compliance · NSW
Victoria's rule is dated and numbered. In NSW, the safety page points only to the federal standards, the minimum-standards page and rental-law timeline have no cord entry, and the consolidated legislation carries none of the rule's numbers. The paper trail, page by page.
Rules & compliance · National
Two short instruments govern every corded covering in the country. The measurements, the mandated words, and the "AS/NZS 4874" the trade cites that does not exist.
Rules & compliance · Victoria
Every corded blind or curtain in a Victorian rental must now be anchored so no loose loop of 220 mm or more can form within 1,600 mm of the floor, whatever its age. The instrument, the advertising offence, the renter's rights, the free hardware, and the government's own costing of the fix.