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(O.N.A. 38/561
Certain escalators to be enclosed
by walls, ote-
BUILDINGS ORDINANCE, 1955,
(No. 68 of 1955).
BUILDING (ESCalators) RegulLATIONS, 1959.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 26 of the Buildings Ordinance, 1955, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Building (Escalators) Regulations, 1959, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1960,
2. In these regulations, save where the context otherwise requires-
"compartment of a building" means any volume, or floor area in one storey, in any building assessed as a unit for the purposes of Table XVI in the Building (Construction) Regulations, 1956; "elements of construction" means any floor, beam or column; "F.R.P." means the period for which the element of construction is capable of resisting the action of fire when tested in accordance with British Standard Specification 476:1932 or as specified in Schedule VI of the London County Council London Building (Constructional) By-Laws, 1952;
"governor" mcaus an automatic device which will cause the supply of power to the driving machine of an escalator to be cut off in the event of the escalator exceeding a predetermined safe speed; "machine brake" means an automatic brake designed to stop an escalator when a stop switch or the governor or the device required by regulation 28 is operated;
“rated load" means the maximum load which an escalator is designed
to carry;
"rated speed" means the speed of an escalator measured along the
angle of inclination;
"slop switch" means a switch so designed that, when operated, it wil cause the supply of power to the driving machine of an escalator to be cut off.
3. (1) (a) Save as provided in paragraph (2), every escalator which serves more than one compartment of a building or more than two floors of a building, shall be enclosed by walls. (6) Every such wall shall have an F.R.P. of not less than the longer period required for the elements of construction in any
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compartment of the building so served or for the elements of construction of the compartment of the building in which such floors are.
(2) Any such escalator need not be so enclosed where the whole of the compartments or floors served thereby and the escalator well are provided with an adequate sprinkler system.
4. Where a door is provided in any wall enclosing an escalator, Doors in the door and the frame thereof shall have an F.R.P. of not less than walls
enclosing half an hour.
escalator.
5. (1) Where borrowed lights are provided in any wall enclosing Borrowed an escalator-
libus La walls (a) the area of such lights shall be not more than one-fifth of the enclosing
total area of the wall; and
cscalator.
(6) the lights shall be glazed with a quarter inch wired glass or
covered with glass bricks or blacks.
(2) Where any such lights are glazed with wired glass-
(a) the area of any one pane of glass shall be not more than four
square feet; and
(b) the frame of the lights shall be constructed of
( hardwood, having no dimension, in section, less than one and three quarter inches; or
(i) steel.
(3) Where any such lights are covered with glass bricks or blocks- (a) the area of the panels shall be not more than forty square feet;
and
(6) there shall be provided, on each side and on top thereof an
expansion joint of not less than half an inch.
6. The sides and undersides of every escalator and any space in Escalater and which therefor is installed shall be enclosed by materials having an machinery F.R.P. of not less than half an hour.
space to be
cnclosed.
7. (1) A means of access shall be provided, for the purposes of Access to inspection and maintenance, to the interior of every escalator and to escalator any space in which machinery therefor is installed.
(2) Every such means of access shall be provided with a door having an F.R.P. of not less than half an hour.
machinery space for Inspection and maintenance.
8. (1) There shall be provided, in the upper part of every Access panel escalator, in a position approved by the Chief Officer of the Fire to be Brigade, an access panel.
(2) No dimension of any such panel shall be less than nine inches.
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