Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Where any accident occurs in the operation of any lift or escalator which results or is likely to have resulted in loss of human life or injury to any person, the owner of the building in which the lift or escalator is working or if such owner has appointed an agent and has communicated his name to the Inspector under sub-section (3), such agent, shall as soon as may be after such accident, give notice in such form and in such manner as may be prescribed, with full details of the accident to the Inspector and also in the area for which a Commissioner of Police has been appointed, to the Commissioner of Police and elsewhere to the District Magistrate or such other officer as the State Government may, by order, specify and the lift or escalator installation shall not be interfered with in any manner and the working of such lift or escalator shall not be resumed except with the written permission of the officer authorised in this behalf by the State Government. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the owner of every building in which a lift or an escalator has been installed, or in the case where such owner does not reside in such building, an agent (who shall be a resident in the town or village in which the building is situate) appointed by the owner, shall give notice of any accident occurring in the operation of the lift or escalator. (3) The name of every agent appointed under sub-section (2) shall be communicated in writing to the Inspector. (4) The State Government may authorise the Inspector or any other competent person appointed in this behalf, to inquire and report- (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 (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.