Hong Kong Regulations

FACTORIES AND INDUSTRIAL UNDERTAKINGS (LIFTING APPLIANCES AND LIFTING GEAR) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 18C

Keeping and displaying of certificates and reports

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The owner of a lifting appliance, or any chain, rope or lifting  gear
shall keep the certificates and reports issued in respect of any test,
examination or inspection required by these regulations in a safe place and
shall not dispose of any certificate or report until 2 years after the date on
which the certificate or report of the subsequent test, examination or
inspection, as the case may be, is received by the owner or until 2 years
after the date on which the lifting appliance, or any chain, rope or
lifting gear is disposed of. (L.N. 23 of 1994)

(2) The owner of a lifting appliance shall ensure that a copy of the relevant
and the most recent certificate or report is displayed in the driving cabin or
other prominent place on the equipment to which it relates or in a prominent
place nearby.

(3) Paragraph (1) applies whether or not the lifting appliance, chain, rope or
lifting gear is still in use.

(4) The owner of a lifting appliance, or any chain, rope or lifting  gear
shall at all reasonable times make available for inspection by any
occupational safety officer who requests to see them all certificates or
reports required to be kept by him under paragraph (1). (L.N. 23 of 1994; 32
of 2000 s. 48)

(5) The owner of a lifting appliance, or any chain, rope or lifting  gear
shall, upon request in writing by an occupational safety officer within such
period (being not less than 7 days) as may be specified in the request,
deliver to the occupational safety officer a copy of or an extract from any
certificate or report required to be kept by him under paragraph (1). (L.N. 23
of 1994; 32 of 2000 s. 48) (Part IIIA added L.N. 285 of 1993)