The Lifts Regulations 1997

General duty relating to the placing on the market and putting into service of lifts

8.—(1) Subject to regulation 12, no person who is a responsible person shall place on the market and put into service any lift unless the requirements of paragraph (2) have been complied with in relation to it.

(2) The requirements in respect of any lift are that—

(a) it satisfies the relevant essential health and safety requirements and for the purpose of satisfying those requirements—

(i) where a transposed harmonised standard covers one or more of the relevant essential health and safety requirements, any lift constructed in accordance with that transposed harmonised standard shall be presumed to comply with that or, as the case may be, those essential health and safety requirements; and

(ii) by calculation or on the basis of design plans, it is permitted to demonstrate the similarity of a range of equipment to satisfy the essential safety requirements;

(b) the appropriate conformity assessment procedure in respect of the lift has been carried out in accordance with regulation 13(1);

(c) the CE marking has been affixed to it by the installer of the lift in accordance with Schedule 3;

(d) a declaration of conformity has been drawn up in respect of it by the installer of the lift containing the information listed in Part B of Schedule 2, taking account of the specifications given in the Schedule used for the conformity assessment procedure; and

(e) it is in fact safe.

(3) Any technical documentation or other information in relation to a lift required to be retained under the conformity assessment procedure used shall be retained by the person specified in that respect in that conformity assessment procedure for any period specified in that procedure.