{"id":78574,"date":"2017-02-02T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=d2cdb34d37d5d29c6a9c7b6ee2d5a329"},"modified":"2017-02-22T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:56:09","slug":"government-response-new-child-car-seat-rules-no-change-for-existing-booster-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78574","title":{"rendered":"Government response: New child car seat rules: no change for existing booster seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> New rules for manufacturers of backless booster seats effective from February 9 2017.<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>The Department for Transport has been notified by the <abbr title=\"United Nations\">UN<\/abbr> that the new rules for manufacturers of backless booster seats apply from 9 Feb 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The new rules mean that manufacturers aren\u2019t allowed to introduce new models of backless booster seats for children shorter than 125cm or weighing less than 22kg.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"existing--seats-not-affected-by-new-rules\">Existing  seats not affected by new rules<\/h3>\n<p>The change doesn\u2019t affect existing models of seats or cushions and doesn\u2019t mean that they are unsafe or illegal  &#8211; though parents are still being encouraged to make sure they know the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/child-car-seats-the-rules\">rules for using child car seats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The change to the technical standards means that the range of products available on the market are better suited for younger children.<\/p>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1018\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Roads media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3021\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Switchboard<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existing booster seats and cushions are not affected by new rules which came into force February 9 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79140,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78574\/revisions\/79140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}