1964_LIFTS_AND_ESCALATORS_(SAFETY)_ORDINANCE — Page 27

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CAP. 327]

Lifts and Escalators (Safety)

Power of Director to

prohibit use and operation of lift or escalator.

[1987 Ed.

case may be, is not satisfied that the lift or escalator and all machinery and equipment connected therewith is in safe working order and where, upon any test under section 23 or 24 or upon any test in accordance with an order under section 25, the registered lift engineer or registered escalator engineer, as the case may be, is not satisfied that the safety equipment provided for the lift or escalator is in safe working order, he shall----

(a) if he is of opinion that any further use or operation of the lift or escalator would be, or would be likely to be, dangerous, forthwith report the fact that he is not so satisfied to the Director and to the owner of the lift or escalator; or

(b) if he is of opinion that no immediate danger will arise from the further use and operation of the lift or escalator, report the fact that he is not so satisfied to the owner of the lift or escalator, and where-

(i) within a period of 14 days from the date of such report, the lift or escalator and all machinery and equip- ment connected therewith or the safety equipment pro- vided for the lift or escalator, or both, as the case may be, has been put in safe working order to his satisfaction, shall give his certificate in the manner provided by subsec- tion (1)(a); or

(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 his satisfaction, shall forth- with report that he is not satisfied that 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, is or are in safe working order to the Director.

27. (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

(b) has, within 21 days of the service of an order under section 25, neither received a certificate in the specified 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 (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 27) (c) has, under section 26(2), received a report from a regis- tered 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