Article 2U.K.Scope
1.This Regulation applies to new cableway installations designed to transport persons, to modifications of cableway installations requiring a new authorisation, and to subsystems and safety components for cableway installations.
2.This Regulation does not apply to the following:
(a)lifts covered by [F1the Lifts Regulations 2016];
(b)cableway installations that are categorised [F2by the Cableway Installations Regulations 2018] as historic, cultural or heritage installations, that entered into service before 1 January 1986 and that are still in operation, and that have not had any significant changes in design or construction, including subsystems and safety components specifically designed for them;
(c)installations intended for agricultural or forestry purposes;
(d)cableway installations for the service of mountain shelters and huts intended only for the transport of goods and specifically designated persons;
(e)on-site or mobile equipment exclusively designed for leisure and amusement purposes and not as a means for transporting persons;
(f)mining installations or other industrial on-site installations used for industrial activities;
(g)installations in which the users or their carriers are waterborne.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cableway Installations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1347), regs. 1, 13(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Art. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cableway Installations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1347), regs. 1, 13(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)