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Power of Director to prohibit use

and operation of lift or escalator,

Form 16.

Famo 17,

Form 18.

Form 19.

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(ii) upon the expiration of such period 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 or have not been put in safe working order to bis satisfaction, sball forthwith report that he is not satisfied that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equip ment connected therewith or the safety equipment provided for the lift or escalator, or both, as the case may be, is or are in safe working order to the Director.

17. (1) Where the Director-

(a) is not satisfied that the provisions of section 19 are being

complied with in respect of a lift or escalator; or

(6) has, within twenty-one days of the service of an order under section 25, 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. or both, as the case may be, is or are in safe working order nor been notified that the same is or are not in safe working order:

or

(c) has, under subsection (2) of section 26, received a report from a registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer that such engineer is not satisfied that a lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith or the safety equipment provided for a lift or escalator, or both, as the case may be, is or are in safe working order; or

(d) is, at any time, satisfied that any lift or escalator is in any

respect not in safe working order,

he may, by order in the prescribed form served upon the owner of the lift or escalator, prohibit the use and operation of the lift or escalator

(2) Any such order shall continue in operation until, as the case may be, the Director has received, or is, under the provisions of para- graph (c) of subsection (2) of section 36, deemed to have received, I certificate in the prescribed form from a registered lift engineer or · registered escalator engineer certifying that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith or the safety equipment, or both, is or are in safe working order or has received a certificate it the prescribed form from a registered lift contractor or registered escalator contractor certifying that the lift or escalator has been cleaned, oiled and adjusted in accordance with the provisions of section 19, and has, in the prescribed form, permitted the use and operation of the lift or escalator to be resumed.

28. (1) Any person who-

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PART V.

Offences.

(a) forges any certificate required by, under or for the purposes

of this Ordinance:

(b) gives or signs any such certificate knowing it to be false in a

material particular;

(e) knowingly utters or makes use of any such certificate so forged

or false;

(d) knowingly utters or makes use of as applying to any lift or escalator any such certificate which does not so apply; or

(e) makes any statement which is false in a material particular in

an application under section 6.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for twelve months.

(2) In the event of any contravention of the provisions of sub- section (2) of section 39, the owner of the lift or escalator shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months unless he shows that such contravention occurred without his consent or con- nivance and that he bad taken all reasonable steps to prevent the same,

(3) Any person who-

(a) contravenes the provisions of section 32. subsection (2) or

(3) of section 33 or subsection (5) of section 40;

(b) removes or defaces any order or any copy thereof posted on

any building under the provisions of this Ordinance;

(c) fails to comply with any conditions imposed under the provi-

sions of subsection (1) of section 45; or

(d) obstructs the Director, or any public officer authorized by him, in the execution of his powers or functions under the provisions of this Ordinance.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

Certain odcocca.

29. (1) No new lift or escalator shall be used or operated by any Prohibition person for any purpose, except by or under the direction of the Director of use and or a registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer, as the lifts and

operation of case may be, in connexion with the examination or testing thereof or escalators in the testing of the safety equipment provided therefor or by or under the direction of a registered lift contractor or a registered escalator con- in conncsion tractor, as the case may be, in connexion with the carrying out of any

certain cases, and offences

therewith.