---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 1262.1"
title: "16"
number: "1262.1"
heading: "Scope, purpose, application, and exemptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/1262.1"
---

# §1262.1. Scope, purpose, application, and exemptions.

- (a) **Scope and purpose.** This part, a consumer product safety standard, prescribes the safety requirements for a subject magnet product, as defined in [§ 1262.2(b)](/cfr/16/1262.2.md?p=b). These requirements are intended to reduce or eliminate an unreasonable risk of death or injury to consumers who ingest one or more hazardous magnets (as defined in [§ 1262.2(a)](/cfr/16/1262.2.md?p=a)) from a subject magnet product.
- (b) **Application.** Except as provided in [paragraph (c)](#c) of this section, all subject magnet products that are manufactured after October 21, 2022, are subject to the requirements of this part.
- (c) **Exemption.** The following consumer products are exempt from the requirements of this part: Toys that are subject to [16 CFR part 1250](/cfr/16/part1250.md).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2056, 2058.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 57789, Sept. 21, 2022, unless otherwise noted.