The Lifts Regulations 2016

Labelling and instructions

19.—(1) Before placing a safety component for lifts on the market, a manufacturer must—

(a) ensure that it is labelled with—

(i) the name, registered trade name or registered trade mark of the manufacturer;

(ii) a single postal address at which the manufacturer can be contacted; and

(iii) the type, batch or serial number of the safety component for lifts or other element allowing the safety component to be identified;

(b) ensure that it is accompanied by the instructions referred to in point 6.1 of Annex I to the Directive (as amended from time to time).

(2) The information referred to in paragraph (1) above must be—

(a) in the case of the information referred to in paragraph (1)(a), in a language that can be easily understood by the end-users and the competent national authority in the member State in which the safety component for lifts is to be made available to end-users;

(b) in the case of the information referred to in paragraph 1(b), in a language which can be easily understood by the end-users in the member State in which the safety component for lifts is to be made available to end-users; and

(c) clear and understandable.

(3) Where the size or nature of the safety component for lifts does not allow the information referred to in paragraph (1)(a) to be indicated on the safety component for lifts, that information must be provided on the label referred to in regulation 50(2).

(4) Where the safety component for lifts is to be made available to end-users in the United Kingdom the language which can be easily understood by end-users is English.