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FACTORIES AND MACHINERY (ELECTRIC PASSENGER AND GOODS LIFT)
REGULATIONS, 1970.
PART II - DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND TESTS.

Regulation 28. Operation and control.

(1) Means shall be provided in every automatically controlled lift to prevent interference with its
journey to a given landing by pressing any landing button, except that where collective controls
are fitted, it shall be possible to stop a car at any intermediate landing.

(2) Provision shall be made for a reasonable time lag between stopping and restarting of the car.

(3) The handle of every car switch operating device shall be arranged to return to the "stop"
position when released.

(4) Every lift operated by a hand rope or similar device shall be so arranged that in the event of
interruption of the power supply it is necessary to return such device to the "stop" position before
the lift can be restarted.

(5) Every drum-drive lift shall be provided with a slackrope switch which shall automatically cut off
the current and stop the lift should the suspension ropes become slack from any cause
whatsoever. Such switch shall be enclosed and so constructed that it will not automatically reset
when the slack is removed.

(6) No emergency switch for short circuiting the landing door interlock circuit shall be provided in
any lift car.

(7) The frames of the lift machine, the controller and all electric appliances in or on the car shall
be effectively earthed.

(8) The control circuits shall be protected by fuses or similar means independently of the main
circuits. Where one side of the control circuit is earthed, safety devices shall be connected to the
unearthed side of the circuit.

(9) No control system shall be used which depends on the completion or maintenance of an
electric circuit for the interruption of the power and the application of the brakes at the terminal
landings or for the operation of the safety gear, or for the closing of a contractor by emergency
stop button.

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to dynamic braking or to speed control devices.

(10) The sticking or freezing of any single magnetically operated switch, contactor or relay, or the
occurence of a single accidental earth shall not permit the lift car to start or run if any landing
door, interlock of any landing door or car door or gate contact is in the open position.

(11) In the case of an automatic control lift, neither the operation of a spring nor the completion of
another electric circuit shall be depended upon to open the circuit to stop such a lift at the
terminal landings. The interruption of the electric circuit shall prevent the movement of the car.
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