Got this back from Maxi Cosi tonight:
Good Evening
Thank you for your email.
Maxi-Cosi has become aware of some confusion among consumers in regards to
legislation allowing the use of i-Size (R129) child car seats.
Maxi-Cosi would like to clear this up.
The relevant pieces of legislation to bring i-Size into UK law have completed
Parliamentary processes and came into force on 27 March and 1 April respectively.
But - and this is where the confusion has come in, due in part to some misleading
wording on a government website - the new i-Size standard does not replace the
current one (R44/04): rather, it runs alongside it in parallel.
Therefore, child car seats complying with either standard (i-Size or R44/04) may still
be sold and used. Parents do not have to purchase a new car child seat if they are
using one which meets the current standard.
Maxi-Cosi has been influential in helping introduce the i-Size standard and
pioneering in launching three multi-award winning i-Size child car seats (along with
the Maxi-Cosi 2wayFix Base) onto the UK market: the Maxi-Cosi 2wayPearl; the
Maxi-Cosi Pebble Plus; and the Maxi-Cosi AxissFix.
Maxi-Cosi nevertheless continues to support and promote its child car seats that
meet R44 alone, and will do so for some years to come.
A couple of things to bear in mind:
? If you have purchased an i-Size compliant child car seat, then your child must
travel rear-facing until a minimum 15-months-old (Maxi-Cosi would
recommend that children are ideally kept in rear-facing car seats for as long as
possible )
? If your child car seat meets R44 but not i-Size, you should continue to use the
guidelines for that car seat and the R44 standard.
I Hope this helps