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Registers of lift engineers and escalator
engineers and qualificadons
for Inclusion therein.
Procedure on
application for registra- Lion.
Forms 1
and 1.
(D) the addition to the doors of any lift-way of interlocking devices or the addition of electrical contacts to the door of any lift- way or the car of any lift;
(m) the addition of switches to enable access to be obtained to any
lift-way:
(#) the addition, at the top of the car of any lift, of devices to
enable the lift to be operated therefrom;
(o) the addition of automatic devices to operate the doors of the
lift-way or the car of any lift;
(v) the addition of rope equalizers;
(q) the addition of auxiliary rope-fastening devices:
(7) the addition of car-levelling devices; or
(5) the addition of roller guide shoes.
PART II.
Registered lift engineers and registered escalator engineers.
5. (1) The Director shall keep a register (bereinafter referred to as the register of lift engineers) of persons who are, in his opinion, qualified to carry out the duties and exercise the functions required by this Ordinance to be carried out and exercised by a registered lift engineer and shall also keep a register (hereinafter referred to as the register of escalator engineers) of persons who are, in his opinion, qualified to carry out the duties and exercise the functions so required to be carried out and exercised by a registered escalator engineer.
(2) (a) Save as provided in paragraph (b), no person shall be Included in the register of lift engineers or in the register of escalator engineers unless he is, or is in the full time employ. ment of a registered lift contractor or a registered escalator contractor, as the case may be.
(b) The Director, in his discretion, may, in any particular case, include any other person in the register of lift engineers or in the register of escalator engineers,
(3) No body of persons, corporate or unincorporate, shall be eligible for inclusion in the register of lift engineers or the register of escalator engineers.
6. (1) Every application for inclusion in the register of lift engineers or the register of escalator engineers shall be made in the prescribed form to the Director.
(2) Where, upon any such application, the Director is satisfied that the applicant is qualified in accordance with the provisions of section 5, he shall, within three months of his receipt of the application.
enter the name of the applicant on the register of lift engineers or the register of escalator engineers, as the case may be, and shall issue to him a certificate of registration in the prescribed form.
(3) Where, upon any such application, the Director is not so satisfied, he shall refuse the application and shall, within three months of his receipt of the application, inform the applicant of his refusal.
Forms 1 and 4.
from register.
7. (1) The Director may remove from the register of lift Removal engineers or the register of escalator engineers the name of any person who-
(a) dies: or
(6) ceases, for any reason, to be a lift engineer or an escalator
engineer: or
(c) having, at the time his name was included in the register of lift engineers or the register of escalator engineers, been employed by a registered lift contractor or a registered escalator contractor, ceases for any reason to be so employed. (2) If a registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer who is employed by a registered lift contractor or a registered escalator contractor dies or ceases for any other reason to be employed by such contractor, such contractor shall notify the Director of the fact as soon as practicable.
8. (1) For the purposes of section 9. the Governor may, from Appointment time to time on application made to him by the Director, appoint a
of disciplinary board, ctc. disciplinary board,
(2) Every such board shall consist of -
(a) an authorized architect who is qualified as an engineer;
(6) three engineers having such qualifications as the Director may consider sufficient, of whom at least one shall be qualified as an electrical engineer and at least one as a mechanical engineer;
(c) the Director or his representative; and
(d) a legal adviser.
(3) The Director or his representative shall be the chairman of any disciplinary board and the legal adviser shall conduct the pro- ceedings under the direction of the chairman.
9. (1) Where it appears to the Director that a registered lift Disciplinary engineer or a registered escalator engineer has been convicted by any proceedings. court of such an offence, or has been guilty of such negligence or misconduct, as to--
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