Assam Lifts and Escalators Act, 2006
No: 5 Dated: Jun, 10 2003
THE ASSAM LIFTS AND ESCALATORS ACT, 2006
ASSAM ACT NO. V OF 2006
An Act to provide for the regulation of the installation, maintenance and safe working of electric lifts and escalators and of all machinery and apparatus pertaining thereto in the state of Assam.
Preamble:- Whereas it is expedient to provrde for the rcgulauon or the installation, maintenance and safe working of electric lifts and escalators and ofall machinery and apparatus pertaining thereto in the state of Assam:
It is hereby enacted in the Fitly-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement:- (1) This Act may be called the Assam Lifts and EscalatorsAct, 2006 .
(2) It extends to the whole ofAssam.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. Definitions:- In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) "Baluster" means a short pillar slender above and bulging below;
(b) "Balustrade" means a row of balusters meant for supporting moving handrails;
(c) "ChiefInspector" and "Inspector" means respectively the persons appointed to be the Chief Inspector of lifts and escalators and the Inspector of lifts and escalators under sub-section (I) of section 15;
(d) "combplate" means a pronged plate that forms part of an escalator landing and engages with the cleats ofthe steps at the limits oftravel;
(e) "escalator" means a power d riven inclined continuous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers;
(f) "escalator installation" includes the escalator, the track, the trusses or girders, the balustrading, the step treads and landings and all ch a ins, wires and plants directly connected with the operation ofthe escalator; I ,
(g) "license" means a license granted under section 4;
(h) "lift" means an appliance designed to transport persons or materials between two or more levels in a vertical or substantially vertical direction by means of a guided car or platform;
(i ) "lift car" means the load carrying unit with its floor or platform car-frame and enclosing body work;
(j) "lift installation" includes the lift car, the lift way, the lift way enclosures and the operating mechanism ofthe lift and all ropes, cables, wires and plant, directly connected with the operation ofthe lift;
(k) "power" means any form ofenergy, which is not generated by human or animal agency;
(1) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules; -
(m) "rated speed " means the speed at wh ich the lift or escalator is designed to operate;
(n) "rules" means rules made under this Act;
(o) "owner" means -
(i) a lessee,
(ii) a licensee,
(iii) a mortgagee in possession, and
(iv) any person or authority to whom or to which the possession of and control over the affairs ofthe place in which a lift has been erected and work has been entrusted whether such person or authority is called a managing trustee, an agent, a correspondent, manager, superintendent, secretaryor by any other name whatsoever