{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifts-regulations-2016/regulation-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifts-regulations-2016/regulation-78.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1093",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifts Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifts-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/78",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Appeals against notices",
  "text": "(1) An application for an order to vary or set aside the terms of a notice served under these Regulations may be made—\n(a) by the economic operator on whom the notice has been served; and\n(b) in the case of a notice other than a recall notice, by a person having an interest in the lift or safety component for lifts article in respect of which the notice has been served.\n(2) An application must be made before the end of the period of 21 days beginning with the day on which the notice was served.\n(3) The appropriate court may only make an order setting aside a notice served under these Regulations if satisfied—\n(a) that the lift or safety component for lifts to which the notice relates is in conformity with Part 2; or\n(b) that the enforcing authority failed to comply with regulation 63 (exercise of enforcement powers) when serving the notice.\n(4) On an application to vary the terms of a notice served under these Regulations, the appropriate court may vary the terms of the notice as it considers appropriate.\n(5) In this regulation—\n(a) the “appropriate court” is to be determined in accordance with regulation 79 (appropriate court for appeals against notices); and\n(b) “notice” means any of the following—\n(i) a prohibition notice served in accordance with Schedule 7 (enforcement powers of the Secretary of State and the Department under the 1987 Act);\n(ii) a notice to warn served in accordance with Schedule 7;\n(iii) a suspension notice served in accordance with Schedule 7;\n(iv) a compliance notice served in accordance with Schedule 10 (compliance, withdrawal and recall notices);\n(v) a withdrawal notice served in accordance with Schedule 10;\n(vi) a recall notice served in accordance with Schedule 10.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1093/regulation/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:14.209632+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}