The Electrically, Hydraulically and Oil-Electrically Operated Lifts (Components) (EEC Requirements) Regulations 1991

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings–

“approved body” means a body approved by the Secretary of State under regulation 3;

“approved other body” means a body charged by a member State other than the United Kingdom to carry out functions similar to those authorised to be carried out by an approved body under these Regulations;

“component” means–

(i)

landing-door locking devices;

(ii)

overspeed governors (car and counterweight);

(iii)

safety gears (car and counterweight);

(iv)

buffers (energy accumulation type with buffered return movement and energy dissipation buffers),

designed for use with a lift;

“the Directives” means Council Directive 84/528/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member States relating to common provisions for lifting and mechanical handling appliances(1) and Council Directive 84/529/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the member States relating to electrically operated lifts(2) as adapted to technical progress by Commission Directive 86/312/EEC(3) and as extended to hydraulically and oil-electrically operated lifts by Council Directive 90/486/EEC(4);

“EEC inspection” means the procedure by which an approved body or an approved other body checks–

(a)

whether components conform with the type of component in respect of which an EEC type-examination certificate has been issued or extended;

(b)

whether adequate manufacturing control facilities are provided and adequate manufacturing control records are kept by or on behalf of the manufacturer;

(c)

whether the manufacturer actually carries out adequate checks to verify whether components manufactured by him conform with the type of component in respect of which an EEC type-examination certificate has been issued or extended; and

(d)

whether the EEC mark is being used correctly;

“EEC type-examination certificate” means a certificate that a type of component conforms with the EEC type-examination requirements;

“EEC type-examination requirements” means the technical requirements referred to in the Directives as set out in Schedule 1;

“extend” or

“extended” in relation to an EEC type-examination certificate means extend or extended pursuant to regulation 4(5);

“holder” means the manufacturer, or the authorised representative established in the Community, to whom an EEC type-examination certificate has been issued pursuant to an application under regulation 4(1); and

“lift” means any permanently installed electrically, hydraulically or oil-electrically operated hoisting appliance serving specific levels, having a car designed for the transport of persons or of persons and goods, suspended by ropes or chains or supported by one or more rams and moving at least partially between guides which are vertical or inclined at an angle of less than 15° to the vertical, but excluding–

(i)

lifts specially designed for military or research purposes, or those used as equipment on ships, on offshore prospecting and drilling rigs, in mines, or for the handling of radioactive materials;

(ii)

lifts intended exclusively for the transport of goods; and

(iii)

any of the following hoisting appliances: paternosters, rack-and-pinion elevators, screw-driven elevators, theatre elevators, loading appliances, skips, lifts and goods hoists on building or public works sites, construction or maintenance equipment and lifts specially constructed for transporting the handicapped.

(2) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or Schedule so numbered in these Regulations.

(1)

OJ No. L300. 19.11.84. p.72.

(2)

OJ No. L300. 19.11.84. p.86.

(3)

OJ No. L196. 18.7.86. p.56.

(4)

OJ No. L270. 2.10.90. p.21.