THE HARYANA LIFTS AND ESCALATORS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2020

(lxi) 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 NIL NIL PART&IV CORRECTION SLIPS, REPUBLICATIONS AND REPLACEMENTS NIL HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), OCT. 15, 2020 (ASVN. 23, 1942 SAKA) 181 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:- ‘(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;’. Amendment of section 2 of Haryana Act 27 of 2008. 3. For section 5 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:- “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.”. Substitution of section 5 of Haryana Act 27 of 2008. BIMLESH TANWAR, Administrative Secretary to Government, Haryana, Law and Legislative Department.