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The Lifts Regulations 1997
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- 1997 No. 831
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General duty relating to the placing on the market and putting into service of safety componentsU.K.
9.—(1) Subject to regulation 12, no person who is a responsible person shall place on the market and put into service any safety component unless the requirements of paragraph (2) have been complied with in relation to it.
(2) The requirements in respect of any safety component are that—
(a)it satisfies the relevant essential health and safety requirements and for the purpose of satisfying those requirements where a transposed harmonised standard covers one or more of the relevant essential health and safety requirements, any safety component constructed in accordance with that transposed harmonised standard shall be presumed to be suitable to enable a lift on which it is correctly installed to comply with that or, as the case may be, those essential health and safety requirements;
(b)subject to paragraph (3), the appropriate conformity assessment procedure in respect of the safety component has been carried out in accordance with regulation 13(1);
(c)the CE marking has been affixed to it, or on a label inseparably attached to the safety component, by the manufacturer of that safety component or his authorised representative established in the Community in accordance with Schedule 3;
(d)a declaration of conformity has been drawn up in respect of it by the manufacturer of the safety component or his authorised representative established in the Community containing the information listed in Part A of Schedule 2, taking account of 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 safety component 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.
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