The Uttar Pradesh Lifts and Escalators Act, 2024
The Uttar Pradesh Lifts and Escalators Act, 2024
The Uttar Pradesh Lifts and Escalators Act, 2024, regulates the installation, registration, maintenance, and safety of vertical transit systems. It applies to manufacturers, service agencies, and owners of private, public, and government buildings. The law mandates registration, monthly checks, automatic rescue devices, liability insurance for public premises, and swift accident reporting. This legislation matters because it secures passenger lives by enforcing strict inspections, requiring swift repairs of faulty machinery, and guaranteeing quick financial compensation for injuries. It resolves building safety gaps, ensuring that people using tall structures are fully protected against mechanical failures across all growing cities in the state.
- 1. Short title and extent
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Registration by owner to erect lift or escalator
- 4. Intimation on completion of commissioning and before use of lift or escalator
- 5. Maintenance of lift or escalator
- 6. Safety of passenger
- 7. Insurance
- 8. Compliance of various codes for building, electrical-mechanical installation and lift or escalator
- 9. Duration of registration
- 10. Registration in case of existing lifts and escalator
- 11. Registration of manufacturer, commissioning and installing agency, agency involved in AMC
- 12. Report of accidents and inquiries thereof
- 13. Right to enter any building for inspection of lift or escalator
- 14. Recovery of Dues
- 15. Late Fees
- 16. Protection for acts done in good faith
- 17. Service of notices, orders or documents
- 18. Appeals
- 19. Power to make rules
- 20. Power to exempt certain premises
- 21. Application of Act to lifts or escalators installed in Government premises
- 22. Saving Clause
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