EXTRAORDINARY
Published by Authority
© Govt. of Haryana
No. 151-2020/Ext.] CHANDIGARH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2020
(ASVINA 23, 1942 SAKA)
LEGISLATIVE SUPPLEMENT
CONTENTS
PAGES PART&I ACTS
THE HARYANA LIFTS AND ESCALATORS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020 181 (HARYANA ACT NO. 27 OF 2020)
PART&II ORDINANCES
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PART-I
HARYANA GOVERNMENT
LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Notification
The 15th October, 2020
No. Leg. 37/2020.— The following Act of the Legislature of the State of Haryana received the assent of the Governor of Haryana on the 18th September, 2020 and is hereby published for general information.
HARYANA ACT NO. 27 OF 2020
THE HARYANA LIFTS AND ESCALATORS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020
AN
ACT
further to amend the Haryana Lifts and Escalators Act, 2008.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Seventy first Year of the
Republic of India as follows :–
1. This Act may be called the Haryana Lifts and Escalators (Amendment) Act, 2020. Short title.
2. After clause (a) of section 2 of the Haryana Lifts and Escalators Act, 2008 (hereinafter called the principal Act), the following clause shall be inserted, namely:-
Amendment of section 2 of Haryana Act 27 of 2008.
'(aa) "emergency rescue device" means an electronic and electric apparatus which provides 3-phase emergency power supply to the lift, in case of power failure/breakdown in the high rise building and gives sufficient backup to the lift to land, stop and open the landing and lift cage doors at any floor and remain in regular operation upto the extended time which would be at least fifteen minutes;'.
3. For section 5 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:-
Substitution of section 5 of Haryana Act 27 of 2008.
"5. Emergency rescue device and automatic rescue device.- (1) The owner shall make arrangement to provide the emergency rescue device for high rise building having height more than fifteen meters excluding group housing, domestic or any other building to rescue the travelling passengers trapped in the lift in the event of breakdown of power supply by bringing the lift to any floor, stopping the lift and keeping the landing and lift cage doors open.
(2) The owner shall have option to provide automatic rescue device or emergency rescue device for group housing building, domestic or any other building having height less than fifteen meters to rescue the travelling passengers trapped in the lift in the event of breakdown of power supply by bringing the lift to nearest/any floor, stopping the lift and keeping the landing and lift cage doors open, as the case may be.".
BIMLESH TANWAR, Administrative Secretary to Government, Haryana, Law and Legislative Department.