1985 Ed.]
Building (Lifts) Regulations
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4. Save insofar as provision is made therefor in these regulations, every lift and any machinery, mechanism, electrical installation or equipment connected or associated therewith shall be designed and installed or constructed as the case may be in accordance with the current relevant British Standard Code of Practice or Specification and any other national standard as may be approved.
PART II
GENERAL
5. [Subsidiary] Application of British Standard Code of Practice or Specification. L.N. 367/83.
5. Save as otherwise provided, the provisions of this Part of these regulations shall apply to all lifts.
6. Every liftway and lift pit, the walls enclosing any lift well and every room provided for housing the machinery and other equipment for any lift shall be such as to provide adequate clearance for the safe operation of the lift and the machinery and other equipment provided therefor.
7. Nothing, other than a lift and such machinery, installation and equipment connected or associated therewith as may be necessary, shall be installed or accommodated in a liftway.
8. Not more than 4 lifts shall be accommodated in one liftway.
9. (1) Every liftway shall, except for the openings for doors and ventilation, be completely enclosed.
(2) The walls so enclosing any liftway shall-
(a) be of sufficient strength to support the lift guides; and
(b) have an F.R.P. of not less than 2 hours.
10. (1) Save as provided in paragraph (2) and subject to the provisions of paragraph (3), the inner surface of that wall, enclosing a liftway, which faces the entrance to the car of the lift shall, so far as practicable, form a smooth continuous surface, without projections or recesses.
(2) Where a projection or recess is unavoidable, such projection or recess shall be splayed, on its underside, to an angle of 75° from the horizontal.
(3) Where the lift installed in any liftway is fitted with a levelling device, the inner surface of such wall shall, for a distance not less than the aggregate of the depths of the levelling zone and the distance which the lift is capable of travelling of its own momentum when the power is cut off, without exception, form a smooth continuous surface without projections or recesses.
Part II.
Clearance for safe operation of lifts.
Liftway exclusively for lift, machinery, installations and equipment. L.N. 367/83.
Restriction of number of lifts in one liftway.
Liftway to be enclosed, etc.
Wall of liftway facing car to be without projections or recesses.
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