The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act, 2000

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    "title": "The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act, 2000",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act, 2000",
    "act_number": "Gujarat Act No. 4 of 2000",
    "act_year": 2000,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": null,
    "description": "The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act, 2000",
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    "section_label": "Section",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "1. Short title, extent and commencement.",
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            "content": "Object & Reasons 6\nStatement of object and Reasons Act No. 13 of 2013.",
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            "number": "2",
            "title": "2. Definitions.",
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            "content": "(a) \"Baluster\" means a short pillar slender above and bulging below;\n(b) \"Balustrade\" means a row of balusters meant for supporting moving handrails;\n[(c) \"Chief Inspector\" and \"Inspector\" , and \"Assistant Inspector\" means respectively the person designated or appointed, as the case may be, to be the Chief Inspector of Lifts and Escalators, the Inspector of Lifts and Escalators and the Assistant Inspector of Lifts and Escalators under sub-section (1) of section 10A or under sub-section (1) of section 15;]\n(d) \"combplate\" means a pronged plate that forms part of an escalator landing and engages with the cleats of the steps at the limits of travel;\n(e) \"escalator\" means a power driven inclined continuous stairway used for raising or lowering passengers;\n(f) \"escalator installation\" includes the escalator, the track, the trusses or girders, the balustrading, the step treades and landings and all chains, wires and plants directly connected with the operation of the escalator;\n(g) \"licence\" means a licence granted under section 4;\n(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;\n(i) \"lift car\" means the load carrying unit with its floor or platform car frame and enclosing body work;\n(j) \"lift installation\" includes the lift car, the lift way, the lift way enclosure and the operating mechanism of the lift and all ropes, cables, wires and plant, directly connected with the operation of the lift;\n(k) \"power\" means any form of energy which is not generated by human or animal agency;\n(l) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules;\n(m) \"rated speed\" means the speed at which the lift or escalator is designed to operate;\n(n) \"rules\" means rules made under this Act.",
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        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Permission to erect lift or escalator.",
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            "content": "(a) the type of the lift or escalator;\n(b) the rated maximum speed of the lift or the speed at which the escalator is designed to operate;\n(c) the maker's or designer's rated capacity in weight;\n(d) the maximum number of passengers in addition to the lift operator which the lift can carry;\n(e) the total weight of the lift car carrying the maximum load;\n(f) the weight of the counter weight of the lift;\n(g) the number, description, weight and size of the supporting cables of the lift or escalator;\n(h) the depth of the pit from the lowest part of the car when at the lowest floor of lift;\n(i) such details of the construction of the overhead arrangement with the weights and size of the beams for the lift, as may be prescribed;\n(j) angle of inclination for escalator;\n(k) type of balustrading in escalator;\n(l) the width between balustrades in escalator;\n(m) details of handrails, steps treads, landing, combplates, trustees or girders and step wheel tracks in escalators;\n(n) the rated load in kilogrammes on escalator;\n(o) the factor of safety based on the static loads in the lift or escalator; and\n(p) such other particulars as may be prescribed.",
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        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Licence to use lift or escalator.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Application for licence in case of existing lifts and escalators.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Duration and renewal of licence.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Lift or escalator not to be operated without licence.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "8. Suspension or cancellation of licence.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Additions and alterations to lift or escalator installation.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 8
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Right to enter any building for inspection of lift or escalator and lift or escalator installation, etc.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[10A. Power of State Government to designate in the areas comprising of municipal corporations or municipalities.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Appeal.",
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            "content": "",
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        },
        {
            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Owner to give facilities for inspection.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 11
        },
        {
            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Authorisation to a person for erection, maintenance, inspection and test.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Report of accidents and inquiries.",
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            "content": "(a) as to the cause of any accident affecting the safety of the persons which may have been occasioned by, or in connection with, the lift or escalator installation, or\n(b) as to the manner in, and extent to, which the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder so far as those provisions affect the safety of any person, have been complied with.\n[15. Appointment of Chief Inspector, Inspector and Assistant Inspector of Lifts and Escalators.\n(a) the Chief Inspector of Lifts and Escalators;\n(b) the Inspector of Lifts and Escalators;\n(c) the Assistant Inspector of Lifts and Escalators.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. Inspection of lifts and escalators and charging of fees.",
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            "content": "(a) shall be inspected by the Chief Inspector or by the Inspector authorised in this behalf by the State Government before the grant of a license under section 4;\n(b) shall be inspected by the Assistant Inspector, either appointed or authorised by the State Government, at an interval of five years from the date of grant of License;\n(c) may be inspected by the Inspector to check up compliance with the order made under sub-section (2) of section 10, if necessary.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Recovery of fees, etc.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Penalty.",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 16
        },
        {
            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Offences by companies.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"company\" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of individuals, and\n(b) \"director\" in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 17
        },
        {
            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Cognizance of offences.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Service of notices, orders or documents.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) where a local authority is the addressee, at the office of the local authority,\n(b) where a company is the addressee, at the registered office of the company or in the event of the registered office of the company not being in India, at the head office of the company in India.\n(c) where any other person is the addressee, at the usual or last known place of abode or business of the person.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 19
        },
        {
            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Protection for acts done in good faith.",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 20
        },
        {
            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Application of Act to lifts or escalators belonging to Government.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "[23A. Power of State Government to give directions.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 21
        },
        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Power to make rules.",
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            "content": "(a) the specifications for lifts and escalators;\n(b) the manner in which erection plans of lifts and escalators shall be submitted;\n(c) the manner in which the lifts and escalators may be tested;\n(d) the form of application for permission to erect a lift or escalator under sub-section 3;\n(e) details of the construction of the overhead arrangement with the weights and sizes of the beams under item (i) of sub-section (1) of section 3;\n(f) other particulars which the application for permission to erect a lift or an escalator shall specify under item (u) of sub-section (1) of section 3.\n(g) the form in which an application for licence shall be made and the fee which shall accompany such application under sub-section (2) of section 4;\n(h) the form in which and the terms and conditions on which the licence may be granted for the working of a lift or an escalator under sub-section (4) of section 4;\n(i) the form in which an application for renewal of licence shall be made and the fee which shall accompany such application under sub-section (2) of section 6;\n(j) the form of notice to be given under sub-section (1) of section 10;\n(k) the form in which an application for obtaining authorisation shall be made and the fee and the particulars which shall accompany such application under sub-section (2) of section 13.\n(l) the qualifications and other requirements for obtaining authorisation under sub-section (3) of section 13;\n(m) the form and the manner in which notice of accident shall be given under sub-section (1) of section 14;\n[(mm) the qualifications and other requirements for appointment of the Chief Inspector, the Inspector and the Assistant Inspector under sub-section(1) of section 15;]\n(n) the rate of fee which shall be charged for inspection of every lift or escalator and the period within which and the manner in which such fee shall be paid under sub-section (4) of section 16;\n(o) any other matter which is to be, or may be, prescribed.\n[25. Provisions of Electricity Act, 2003 not affected.",
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        },
        {
            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Repeal and savings.",
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            "content": "Schedule\n( See Section 23)\n( See Section 23)\n(1) In section 5, in sub-section (1), for the words \"every owner\", the words \"every Government Officer-in-charge\" shall be substituted.\n(2) In section 14, in sub-section (2),-\n(i) for the words beginning with the words \"the owner of every building\" and ending with the words \"in such building\", the following shall be substituted, namely:-\n\"for every building in which a lift or an escalator has been installed by Government, the Government or\";\n(ii) for the words\" appointed by the owner\" the words \"appointed by the Government\" shall be substituted.\n(3) In section 21, in sub-section (1), for clause (a), the following shall be substituted namely:-\n\"(a) where Government is the addressee, at the office of the agent appointed by Government under sub-section (2) of section 14\".",
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            "is_definition": false,
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "Last Updated 17th May, 2019 [guj103]",
        "Act Number": "Gujarat Act No. 4 of 2000",
        "Enactment Date": "",
        "Act Year": "2000",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Lifts and Escalators Act, 2000",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:55:19"
}