1964_LIFTS_AND_ESCALATORS_(SAFETY)_ORDINANCE — Page 20

1987 Ed.]

Lifts and Escalators (Safety)

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(3) On receipt of the certificate and the prescribed fee under subsection (2), the Director shall- (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 15)

(a) if he is satisfied that the lift or escalator and all such machinery and equipment and the safety equipment provided therefor is in safe working order and save as provided in section 32(2), by notice in the specified form permit the lift or escalator to be used and operated;

(Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 15)

or

(b) if he is not so satisfied, refuse to permit the lift or escalator

to be used or operated.

(4) The Director shall be deemed to have permitted the lift or escalator to be used and operated unless, within the period and in the manner prescribed by section 14(1), he notifies the owner thereof that he refuses to permit the same to be used or operated.

13. (1) Where any lift works which consist, either wholly or in part, of major alterations have been 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 have been carried out in respect of any escalator, the owner of the lift or escalator shall, before the normal use and operation thereof is resumed, cause the lift or escalator to be examined and tested by a registered lift engineer or a registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, so far as may be necessary to determine that those parts of the lift or escalator affected by such lift works or escalator works are in safe working order.

(2) When the registered lift engineer or the registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, is satisfied that such parts of the lift or escalator are in safe working order, he shall deliver to the owner of the lift or escalator a certificate in the specified form, and the owner shall deliver the certificate, and pay the prescribed fee, to the Director within 7 days of the receipt of the certificate by the

(Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 16)

owner.

(3) On receipt of the certificate and the prescribed fee under subsection (2), the Director shall (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 16)

(a) if he is satisfied that such parts of the lift or escalator are in safe working order, by notice in the specified form permit the use and operation of the lift or escalator to be resumed;

(Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 16)

or

(b) if he is not so satisfied, refuse to permit the use or

operation of the lift or escalator to be resumed.

(4) The Director shall be deemed to have permitted the use and operation of the lift or escalator to be resumed unless, within the period and in the manner prescribed by section 14(1), he notifies the owner thereof that he refuses to permit the use or operation of the same to be resumed.

50f198954

Examination and testing of lifts to which major alterations have been made and of escalators to which alteration of speed, etc. has been made.

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