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Form 9.
Form 10.
Form 10.
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(b) at intervals not exceeding five years, by the operation of the
same with full rated load in the lift.
(2) Any test of any safety equipment made in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) may be in lieu of the test thereof required, in respect of that period of twelve months, by the provisions of paragraph (a) of that subsection.
24. At intervals not exceeding twelve months, the owner of every escalator shall, in addition to the examination thereof required by the provisions of section 22. cause the safety equipment provided therefor to be tested by a registered escalator engineer by the operation of the same without any load on the escalator,
25. (1) Where, within five weeks after the expiration of any period in which-
(a) a lift or escalator is, by the provisions of sections 21 and 22.
respectively, required to be examined; or
(6) the safety equipment provided for any lift or escalator is, by the provisions of sections 23 and 24, respectively, required to be tested,
the Director has neither received a certificate in the prescribed form that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith or the safety equipment provided therefor, as the case may be, is in safe working order nor been notified that the same is not in safe working order, he may, by order in the prescribed form served upon the owner of the lift or escalator, require the owner to cause the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith to be examined or the safety equipment provided therefor to be tested, or both, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of section 21, 22, 23 or 24.
(2) Where the Director is satisfied that any lift works which consisted, either wholly or in part, of major alterations to a lift or that any other lift works which may affect the safe working of a lift have been carried out by some person other than a registered lift contractor, the Director may, by order in the prescribed form served upon the owner of the lift, require the owner to cause the lift and all machinery and equipment connected therewith to be examined, or the safety equipment provided therefor to be tested without any load in the lift, or both, by a registered lift engineer.
(3) Where the Director is satisfied that any escalator works which consisted, either wholly or in part, of the alteration of the speed, opera- tion or design of an escalator or that any other escalator works which may affect the safe working of an escalator have been carried out by some person other than a registered escalator contractor, the Director may, by order in the prescribed form served upon the owner of the
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escalator, require the owner to cause the escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith to be examined, or the safety equipment provided therefor to be tested, or both, by a registered escalator engineer.
examination
26. (1) (a) Where, upon any examination under the provisions of Procedure section 21 or 22 or upon any examination in accordance with uron an order under section 25, the registered lift engineer or or test. registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, is satisfied that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith is in safe working order and where, upon any test under the provisions of section 23 or 24 or upon any test in accordance with an order under section 25, the registered lift engineer or registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, is satisfied that the safety equipment provided for the lift or escalator is in safe working order, he shall, within twenty- one days of the examination or test, as the case may be, deliver to the owner of the lift or escalator a certificate in the prescribed form.
(b) The owner of the lift or escalator shall, within seven days of his receipt thereof, deliver such certificate to the Director.
(2) Where, upon any examination under the provisions of section 21 or 22 or upon any examination in accordance with an order under section 25, the registered lift engineer or registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, is not satisfied that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith is in safe working order and where, upon any test under the provisions of section 23 or 24 or upon any lest in accordance with an order under section 25, the registered lift engineer or registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, is not satisfied that the safety equipment provided for the lift ór escalator is in safe working order, he shull-
(a) if he is of opinion that any further use or operation of the lift or escalator would be, or would be likely to be, dangerous, forthwith report the fact that he is not so satisfied to the Director and to the owner of the lift or escalator; or
(b) if he is of opinion that no immediate danger will arise from the further use and operation of the lift or escalator, report the fact that be is not so satisfied to the owner of the lift or escalator, and where...
(0) within a period of fourteen days from the date of such report, the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith or the safety equipment provided for the lift or escalator, or both, as the case may be, has been put in safe working order to his satisfaction, shall give his certificate in the manner provided by paragraph (a) of subsection (1); or
Forms 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15.