Aged joint standards under review
These joint Australian/New Zealand standards are under review to determine if they should be withdrawn, retained, or revised.
Standards New Zealand constantly reviews standards that are more than 10 years old to ensure they are current and continue to be fit for purpose. As part of this review, we ask for feedback from stakeholders on standards which we propose to withdraw or reconfirm.
We are now consulting on the following joint standards across the following key sectors:
Consumer and occupational safety, Electrical appliances, Electrical supply, Energy, Energy efficiency, Geographical information systems, Information technology, Lighting, Material technology, Telecommunications
Can you contribute to the future of these standards?
Your industry knowledge and expertise can help us determine if they should be withdrawn, reconfirmed, or revised. We also need your views on what other standards or documents are being used instead of the proposed standard for withdrawal.
Standards proposed to be withdrawn
The following publications have been reviewed by the relevant technical committee (and other stakeholders where appropriate) and are subsequently recommended and proposed for withdrawal.
The publications are proposed for withdrawal for one or more of the following reasons:
- The standard does not reflect current practice or research
- It is not suitable for new and existing applications (products, systems or processes)
- It is not compatible with current views and expectations regarding quality, safety or the environment.
Withdrawn standards can still be used within an industry, community or government and are therefore still available for purchase.
Unless specifically stated, there is no proposed replacement for withdrawn standards.
Consumer and occupational safety sector standards proposed to be withdrawn – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 3629.2:1995(external link) | Methods of testing child restraints – Method 2: Determination of hazardous throat contact in abnormal situations | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 11137.3:2006(external link) | Sterilization of health care products – Radiation – Part 3: Guidance on dosimetric aspects | 23 July 2025 |
| SA/SNZ TR ISO 8124.8:2016(external link) | Safety of toys – Part 8: Age determination guidelines | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support this withdrawal and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Electrical appliance sector standard proposed to be withdrawn – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS CISPR 20:2009(external link) | Sound and television broadcast receivers and associated equipment – Immunity characteristics – Limits and methods of measure | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support this withdrawal and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Electrical supply sector standards proposed to be withdrawn – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS IEC 60092.376:2020(external link) | Electrical installations in ships – Part 376: Cables for control and instrumentation circuits 150/250 V (300 V) | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS IEC 60092.353:2020(external link) | Electrical installations in ships – Part 353: Power cables for rated voltages 1 kV and 3 kV | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS IEC 60092.360:2020(external link) | Electrical installations in ships – Part 376: Cables for control and instrumentation circuits 150/250 V (300 V) | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS IEC 60092.350:2019(external link) | Electrical installations in ships – Part 350: General construction and test methods of power, control and instrumentation cables for shipboard and offshore applications | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 60092.354:2020(external link) | Electrical installations in ships – Part 354: Single- and three-core power cables with extruded solid insulation for rated voltages 6 kV (Um = 7.2 kV) up to 30 kV (Um = 36 kV) | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standards and let us know if you support these withdrawals and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Energy efficiency – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 4014.4:1999(external link) | Domestic solid fuel burning appliances – Test fuels – Sub-bituminous coal | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support this withdrawal and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Information technology sector standard proposed to be withdrawn – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| SA/SNZ TS ISO/IEC 29140:2021(external link) | Information technology for learning, education and training – Nomadicity and mobile technologies | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support this withdrawal and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Lighting sector standard proposed to be withdrawn – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 4437:1996(external link) | Solderless crimped connections – General requirements, test methods and practical guidance | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 60921:2002(external link) | Ballasts for tubular fluorescent lamps – Performance requirements | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support this withdrawal and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Standards proposed to be reconfirmed
The following publications have been reviewed by the relevant technical committee (and other stakeholders where appropriate) and are subsequently recommended and proposed to be reconfirmed.
Consumer and occupational safety sector standards proposed to be reconfirmed – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 4681:2000(external link) | The storage and handling of Class 9 (miscellaneous) dangerous goods and articles | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 2243.6:2010(external link) | Safety in laboratories – Plant and equipment aspects | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4011.2:2014(external link) | Single-use medical examination gloves – Part 2: Specification for gloves made from poly(vinyl chloride) | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4024.1201:2014(external link) | Safety of machinery – Part 1201: General principles for design – Risk assessment and risk reduction | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4024.1303:2014(external link) | Safety of machinery – Part 1303: Risk assessment – Practical guidance and examples of methods | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4024.1702:2014(external link) | Safety of machinery – Part 1702: Human body measurements – Principles for determining the dimensions required for openings for whole body access into machinery | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4024.1704:2014(external link) | Safety of machinery – Part 1704: Human body measurements – Anthropometric data | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4024.1703:2014(external link) | Safety of machinery – Part 1703: Human body measurements – Principles for determining the dimensions required for access openings | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standards and let us know if you support these reconfirmations and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Information technology sector standards proposed to be reconfirmed – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15437:2003(external link) | Information technology – Open distributed processing – Enhancements to LOTOS (E-LOTOS) | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14769:2003(external link) | Information technology – Open distributed processing – Type repository function | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14752:2003(external link) | Information technology – Open distributed processing – Protocol support for computational interactions | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14753:2003(external link) | Information technology – Open distributed processing – Interface references and binding | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14750:2003(external link) | Information technology – Open distributed processing – Interface definition language | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 14756:2001(external link) | Information technology – Measurement and rating of performance of computer-based software systems | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15476.2:2003(external link) | Information technology – CDIF semantic metamodel – Common | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15476.1:2003(external link) | Information technology – CDIF semantic metamodel – Foundation | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15475.2:2003(external link) | Information technology – CDIF transfer format – Syntax SYNTAX.1 | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO/IEC 15475.1:2003(external link) | Information technology – CDIF transfer format – General rules for syntaxes and encodings | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standards and let us know if you support these reconfirmations and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Geographic information sector standards proposed to be reconfirmed – May 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS ISO 19115.1:2015(external link) | Geographic information – Metadata – Part 1: Fundamentals | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19150.2:2018(external link) | Geographic information – Ontology – Part 2: Rules for developing ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19101.1:2015(external link) | Geographic information – Reference model – Part 1: Fundamentals | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19137:2008(external link) | Geographic information – Core profile of the spatial schema | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19111:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Referencing by coordinates | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19115.2:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Metadata – Part 2: Extensions for acquisition and processing | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19108:2003(external link) | Geographic information – Temporal schema | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19133:2006(external link) | Geographic information – Location based services – Tracking and navigation | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19145:2015(external link) | Geographic information – Registry of representations of geographic point location | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19146:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Cross-domain vocabularies | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19129:2011(external link) | Geographic information – Imagery, gridded and coverage data framework | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19165.1:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Preservation of digital data and metadata – Part 1: Fundamentals | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19155:2013(external link) | Geographic information – Place identifier (PI) architecture | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19101.2:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Reference model – Part 2: Imagery | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19106:2005(external link) | Geographic information – Profiles | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19112:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Spatial referencing by geographic identifiers | 3 July 2025 |
| SA/SNZ TS ISO 19150.1:2015(external link) | Geographic information – Ontology – Part 1: Framework | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19160.1:2018(external link) | Addressing – Part 1: Conceptual model | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19134:2008(external link) | Geographic information – Location-based services – Multimodal routing and navigation | 3 July 2025 |
| SA/SNZ TS ISO 19159.1:2015(external link) | Geographic information – Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data – Part 1: Optical sensors | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19128:2006(external link) | Geographic information – Web map server interface | 3 July 2025 |
| SA/SNZ TS ISO 19159.3:2019(external link) | Geographic information – Calibration and validation of remote sensing imagery sensors and data – Part 3: SAR/InSAR | 3 July 2025 |
| SA/SNZ TS ISO 19139.1:2019(external link) | Geographic information – XML schema implementation – Part 1: Encoding rules | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19141:2011(external link) | Geographic information – Schema for moving features | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19118:2012(external link) | Geographic information – Encoding | 3 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS ISO 19125.1:2004(external link) | Geographic information – Simple feature access – Common architecture | 3 July 2025 |
Please review the standards and let us know if you support these reconfirmations and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Lighting sector standards proposed to be reconfirmed – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 4879.1:2008(external link) | Performance of transformers and electronic step-down convertors for ELV lamps – Part 1: Test method – Energy performance | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 4934.1:2014(external link) | Incandescent lamps for general lighting service – Part 1: Test methods – Energy performance | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 3140:2014(external link) | Approval and test specification – Edison screw lampholders | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 3117:2015(external link) | Approval and test specification – Bayonet lampholders | 23 July 2025 |
| AS/NZS 3119:2015(external link) | Approval and test specification – Lampholder adaptors | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standards and let us know if you support these reconfirmations and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Material technology sector standard proposed to be reconfirmed – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 4081:2001(external link) | The storage and handling of liquid and liquefied polyfunctional isocyanates | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support these reconfirmations and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Telecommunications sector standard proposed to be reconfirmed – June 2025
| Standard designation | Title | Consultation close date |
|---|---|---|
| AS/NZS 4432.1:2011(external link) | Global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) – Part 1: Radar transponder – Marine search and rescue (SART) – Operational and performance requirements, methods of testing and required test results | 23 July 2025 |
Please review the standard and let us know if you support these reconfirmations and/or wish to provide feedback by clicking here(external link).
Last updated: 13 March 2025