{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifts-regulations-2016/schedule-11/paragraph-4n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifts-regulations-2016/schedule-11/paragraph-4n1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/1093",
  "legislation_title": "The Lifts Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lifts-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/11/paragraph/4n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The approved body shall:\n(a) examine the technical documentation and the supporting evidence to assess the adequacy of the technical design of the safety component for lifts;\n(b) agree with the applicant on a location where the examinations and tests will be carried out;\n(c) verify that the representative specimen(s) has(have) been manufactured in conformity with the technical documentation, and identify the elements which have been designed in accordance with the applicable provisions of the relevant designated standards, as well as the elements which have been designed in accordance with other relevant technical specifications;\n(d) carry out appropriate examinations and tests, or have them carried out, to check whether, where the manufacturer has chosen to apply the specifications of the relevant designated standards, these have been applied correctly;\n(e) carry out appropriate examinations and tests, or have them carried out, to check whether, where the specifications of the relevant designated standards have not been applied, the solutions adopted by the manufacturer applying other relevant technical specifications enable the safety component for lifts to meet the conditions referred to in point 1.\nThe approved body shall draw up an evaluation report that records the examinations, verifications and tests carried out and their outcome. Without prejudice to its obligations vis-à-vis the Secretary of State, the approved body shall release the content of that report, in full or in part, only with the agreement of the manufacturer.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 11-19 inserted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Product Safety and Metrology etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/696), reg. 1, Sch. 22 para. 44 (with Sch. 22 para. 37) (as amended by S.I. 2020/676, regs. 1(1), 2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/1093/schedule/11/paragraph/4n1",
    "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."
}