Article 2 Scope

United Kingdom

This Regulation applies to new cableway installations designed to transport persons, to modifications of cableway installations requiring a new authorisation, and to subsystems and safety components for cableway installations.

This Regulation does not apply to the following:

(a)

lifts covered by F1the Lifts Regulations 2016;

(b)

cableway installations that are categorised F2by the Cableway Installations Regulations 2018 as historic, cultural or heritage installations, that entered into service before 1 January 1986 and that are still in operation, and that have not had any significant changes in design or construction, including subsystems and safety components specifically designed for them;

(c)

installations intended for agricultural or forestry purposes;

(d)

cableway installations for the service of mountain shelters and huts intended only for the transport of goods and specifically designated persons;

(e)

on-site or mobile equipment exclusively designed for leisure and amusement purposes and not as a means for transporting persons;

(f)

mining installations or other industrial on-site installations used for industrial activities;

(g)

installations in which the users or their carriers are waterborne.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Art. 2(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cableway Installations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1347), regs. 1, 13(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Words in Art. 2(2)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Cableway Installations (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1347), regs. 1, 13(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)