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BUILDINGS ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 123).

BUILDING (LIFTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1969.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 38 of the Buildings Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations---

1. These regulations may be cited as the Building (Lifts) (Amendment) Regulations 1969, and shall come into operation on the 3rd day of May 1969.

2. The principal regulations are amended by adding, after regulation 35, the following new regulations—

"Every lift to have overload device.

Every car

to have

emergency light,

35A. (1) Every lift installed on or after the 3rd day of May 1969 shall be provided with an overload device which shall operate when the load in the car is ten per cent or more in excess of the rated load in respect of such lift.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), “over- load device" means a device that, when in operation—— (a) prevents any movement of the car; and (b) prevents the closing of any power operated door whether fitted to the car or to the landing at which the car is resting,

358. Every car installed on or after the 3rd day of May 1969 shall be provided with an emergency light which shall be automatically ifhuminated-in the event of failure of the supply_of-power to the-lj

Citation and GOTTUDCDCCmeal.

Addition of new regulationa 35A and 158. (Ckx. 133, mud. Reg-)

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

8th April 1969.

Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but te intended to indicate their general purport).

These regulations amend the principal regulations by including therein new provisions whereby every lift will be required to be fitted with 40 overload device and an emergency light.

(Secretariat BL 1/741/521V)