The Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992

3.  The Factories Act 1961(1) shall be modified as follows—

(a) for section 22(2), substitute the following sub-section—

“(2) Every hoist or lift shall be thoroughly examined by a competent person at least once in every period of six months and a record of every such thorough examination and of the results thereof, containing the particulars required by the Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992, shall be made within twenty-eight days, and any such record shall be kept and the particulars in it shall be available for inspection as if it formed part of the general register.”;

(b) for section 22(3), substitute the following sub-section—

“(3) Where the thorough examination shows that the hoist or lift cannot continue to be used with safety unless certain repairs are carried out immediately or within a specified time, the person who authenticates the record shall within twenty-eight days of the completion of the thorough examination send a copy of the particulars contained in the record to an inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive under section 19 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 who is authorised for the purposes of this provision.”;

(c) for section 26(1)(e), substitute the following paragraph—

“(e) no chain, rope or lifting tackle, except a fibre rope or a fibre rope sling, shall be taken into use in any factory for the first time in that factory, unless it has been tested and thoroughly examined by a competent person and a record of the test and thorough examination and of the results thereof, containing the particulars required by the Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992, has been obtained and the particulars in that record are kept available for inspection;”;

(d) for section 26(1)(g), substitute the following paragraph—

“(g) a record containing the particulars required by the Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992, shall be kept in respect of all such chains, ropes or lifting tackle, except fibre rope slings.”;

(e) for section 27(2), substitute the following sub-section—

“(2) All such parts and gear shall be thoroughly examined by a competent person at least once in every period of fourteen months and a record shall be kept of every such thorough examination and of the results thereof, containing the particulars required by the Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992, and where the thorough examination shows that the lifting machine can not continue to be used with safety unless certain repairs are carried out immediately or within a specified time, the person who authenticates the record shall within twenty-eight days of the completion of the thorough examination send a copy of the particulars in the record to an inspector appointed by the Health and Safety Executive under section 19 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 who is authorised for the purposes of this provision.”;

and

(f) in section 27(6), for the words, “certificate of the test” to the end, substitute the following—

“record of the test and thorough examination and of the results thereof, containing the particulars required by the Lifting Plant and Equipment (Records of Test and Examination etc.) Regulations 1992, has been obtained and the particulars in that record are kept available for inspection;”.

(1)

1961 c. 34.