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PART VI.
Supplementary and miscellaneous provisions.
32. Any person who is, at the commencement of this Ordinance. the owner of a lift or escalator shall, in writing within one month of the commencement thereof, notify the Director of the place at which the lift or escalator is installed.
33. (1) Where more than one lift or escalator is installed in any building, each lift or escalator shall be marked with a number so as to enable the lift or escalator to be identified as the lift or escalator to which any certificate, order, notice or report given or made under the provisions of this Ordinance relates.
(2) Where, at the commencement of this Ordinance, more than one lift or escalator is installed in any building, the owner of the lifts or escalators shall, within three months of the commencement thereof, send to the Director a plan showing the position of the lifts or escalators in the building and the numbers with which they have been so marked.
(3) Where, after the commencement of this Ordinance, more than one lift or escalator is installed in any building, the owner of the lifts or escalators shall send such a plan to the Director before or at the same time as the certificate issued under the provisions of subsection (2) of section 12, or, where an application is made to the Director under section 36, before, or at the same time as, such application is made, and the Director may refuse to permit the use and operation of the lifts or escalators, as the case may be, until he has received such plan.
(4) If any person fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (2) or (3), the Director may so mark the lifts or escalators (if they have not already been so marked) and cause to be prepared, and sund to the owner of the lifts or escalators, a plan showing the position of the same in the building and the numbers marked thereon, and may recover the cost, which may include supervision charges, of preparing such plan and of any work involved therein by action in the District Court, if the sum claimed does not exceed five thousand dollars, or in the Supremo Court.
34. Where any lift works which consist, either wholly or in part, of major alterations are to be carried out in respect of any lift and where any escalator works which consist, either wholly or in part, of the alteration of the speed, operation or design of the escalator are to be carried out in respect of any escalator, the registered lift contractor of registered escalator contractor, as the case may be, engaged to carry out such lift works or escalater works shall, as soon as practicable and, in any event, before such works are commenced, in writing notify the to be altered. Director of the works which are to be carried out.
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35. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), a registered Registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, may,
lift or for the purposes of any examination under the provisions of subsection engineer (1) of section 12 or subsection (1) of section 13 or section 21 or 22 or in authorized to accordance with an order under section 25, carry out such tests as he make tests
for purposes considers necessary of the lift or escalator, the safety equipment provided of examina. therefor and the other machinery and equipment connected therewith. tion under section 11, (2) No tests of the safety equipment provided for any lift or 13 21 or escalator shall be made, for the purposes of any such examination. accordance with any load in the lift or on the escalator.
22 or in
with an order under section 25.
thereon.
36, (1) Where, upon an examination and test under the provisions Right of of section 12 or upon an examination under the provisions of section owner of lif or escalator 21 or 22 or upon a test under the provisions of section 23 or 24 or upon aggrieved by an examination or test, or both, in accordance with an order under decision of engineer to section 25. a registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer apply to is of opinion that the lift or escalator or the machinery and equipment Director, and connected therewith or the safety equipment provided therefor, as the procedure case may be, is not in safe working order and where, upon an examina- tion and lest under the provisions of section 13, such engineer is of opinion that those parts of the lift or escalator affected by the lift works or escalator works are not in safe working order, the owner of the lift or escalator may, if he considers himself aggrieved by the decision of such engineer, apply in writing to the Director, and thereupon the provisions of subsection (2) shall apply.
(2) Upon an application under subsection (1), the Director may examine the lift or escalator and the machinery and equipment con- nected therewith or test the safety equipment provided for the lift or escalator, or both, as the case may be, and
(a) if the application is in respect of an examination and test under the provisions of section 12 and the Director is satisfied that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment con- nected therewith and the safety equipment provided therefor is in safe working order, he shall, save as provided in sub- section (3) of section 33. by notice in the prescribed form Form 6. permit the lift or escalator to be used and operated;
(b) if the application is in respect of an examination and test under the provisions of section 13 and the Director is satisfied that those parts of the lift or escalator affected by the lift works or escalator works are in safe working order, he shall by notice in the prescribed form permit the use and operation Forro 8, of the lift or escalator to be resumed;
(c) if the application is in respect of an examination under the provisions of section 21 or 22 or a test under the provisions of