1964_LIFTS_AND_ESCALATORS_(SAFETY)_ORDINANCE — Page 6

1987 Ed.]

Lifts and Escalators (Safety)

[CAP. 327

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or counterweight in the event of the car of the lift or the counterweight exceeding a pre-determined speed in the down- ward direction and, in relation to an escalator, means an automatic device which will cause the supply of power to the driving machine of the escalator to be cut off in the event of the escalator exceeding a pre-determined safe speed;

"industrial undertaking" has the same meaning as in the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance; (Added, 43 of 1987, s. 3)

"legal officer" has the same meaning as in the Legal Officers

Ordinance; (Added, 43 of 1987, s. 3)

"lift" means a lifting machine or appliance having a car or platform the direction of movement of which is restricted by a guide or guides, but does not include an escalator; (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 3)

"lift works” includes any kind of work, not being building works, connected with the installation, commissioning, testing, main- tenance, repair, alteration or demolition of a lift or of the safety equipment provided for a lift or of any other machinery or equipment connected with a lift; (Replaced, 43 of 1987, s. 3) "owner", in relation to a building, includes any person holding premises direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence or otherwise, any mortgagee in possession and any person receiv- ing the rent of any premises, solely or with another, on his own behalf or that of any person, or who would receive the same if such premises were let to a tenant, and, where the owner as above defined cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from Hong Kong or is under disability, the agent of such owner; (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 3)

"owner", in relation to a lift or escalator, means the owner of the building in which the lift or escalator is installed or, where a lift or escalator does not form part of the building, or, if forming part of the building, has not become annexed by operation of law to the building, the owner of the lift or escalator, and in the latter cases includes any person who is in possession of the lift or escalator under any agreement of hire purchase or under any contract between any supplier of lifts or escalators, or the agent of such supplier, and such person, for the sale of a lift or escalator, notwithstanding that the property in the lift or escalator has not passed to such person and, where the owner as above defined, cannot be found or ascertained or is absent from Hong Kong or is under disability, the agent of such owner; (Amended, 43 of 1987, s. 3)

"rated load" means the load which a lift or escalator is designed and

constructed to carry at the rated speed;

"rated speed" means, in relation to a lift, the mean of the maximum speeds attained by the car or platform of the lift in the upward

(Cap. 59.)

(Cap. 87.)