Yes, and precedence for this has existed for many decades (possibly a century), see below for the car example.
They do, but it isn’t it also the responsibility of a consumer to buy products which are fit for the purpose which they are intended to be used. A retailer nor Choice can’t be responsible for making sure that all consumers use the product legally and appropriately. This is an impossible task.
Take a car for example, modern cars are made and sold so that they easily exceed the posted speed limits. Should a car manufacturer restrict the sale of vehicles to those who can somehow prove that won’t speed and will drive appropriately. Or should car manufacturers only make cars which can’t speed…which is an impossibility as if they limit a car to say 110km/hr, a car can still speed when driven in areas where posted limits are less than that.
Many retailer sell products which can’t be used in a particular area or can’t be installed/used by a consumer. An example is electrical stores than sells electrical switches, flex, light fittings etc which legally can only be installed by an electrician. Should these hardware stores limit the sale of such items to those which are licenced electricians. This might be a good idea in some respects, but it does prevent consumers from making their own choices in relation to consumer products and having them installed legally by a licenced trade person.
There is if the product is defective and has a fault which causes an injury.
If one buys any product and uses it inappropriate (or illegally) and this results in an injury, then it is the consumer who takes on the responsibility. If the current laws are broadened to allow consumers to lake action against any manufacturer/retailer for a product which causes a injury irrespective of how it was used, I would expect that retail offerings in Australia would dry up or the price of products would increase substantially as the manufacturers/retailers would need to self insure in the event that someone uses the product anyway they see fit, and gets injured.
Consumer should have information available in relation to the legal use of scooters.
Should this information be provided at the point of sale? One could argue that this is possibly the last place to provide such information as the consumer is already there to buy the product and is unlikely to take time to read literature about the safe and legal use of a scooter to ensure that they consumer is aware within the retailer that the scooter has limited uses. This doesn’t occur for cars, buying a ride on mover, bicycles etc and why should scooters be singled out. It is also unlikely to sway a consumer that has already entered a store to make a scooter purchase.
Like other ride on devices/products, such information is widely available on the internet and also through relevant transport departments. Is this enough or should every ridable product come with big warning signs instore about its use (what is legal, what is appropriate and what is misuse?
