A new law, set to be introduced in the UK later this year, will change the usage permission for children travelling in backless booster seats.
According to various reports, the backless booster seat will be banned for younger children, with a higher weight and height limit being applied to their usage.
Currently, children travelling in a car can be placed in a backless booster seat from the age of around three years, once they weigh at least 15kg. The new changes, however, will require the child to be taller than 125cm and weigh more than 22kg before being passed to travel in this specific seat.
The law change, which is due to come into effect in December 2016, is reportedly down to a number of safety concerns regarding the current usage rules of the backless booster seat.
Experts believe that the seat offers inadequate protection in the event of a side-impact crash, that it doesn’t hold a smaller child securely, and the seatbelt doesn’t fall across the body in the safest way.
Sources claim that the changes will only apply to new products coming onto the market at the time that the laws are introduced.
