Building Maintenance and Strata Management (Lift, Escalator and Building Maintenance) Regulations 2016

Periodic maintenance of lifts

13.—(1) An owner of a lift in operation must engage a lift service contractor (and no other) to maintain the lift.

(2) The lift service contractor engaged by an owner of a lift under paragraph (1) must carry out maintenance works for the lift in accordance with the maintenance requirements in Part 1 of the First Schedule (or any alternative maintenance requirements accepted by the Commissioner under paragraph (2A)) and —

(a)

in the case of a home lift, a vertical platform lift or a stairlift —

(i)	the requirements for periodic maintenance in the manufacturer’s recommendations for the lift;
(ii)	where the requirements mentioned in sub-paragraph (i) are not available, the requirements for periodic maintenance in the standard that the lift was designed to;
(iii)	where the requirements mentioned in sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) are not available, the requirements for periodic maintenance proposed by the specialist professional engineer for the lift and accepted by the Commissioner in writing; or
(iv)	despite sub-paragraphs (i), (ii) and (iii), where an alternative standard or a modification of requirements is accepted by the Commissioner under regulation 17(4B)(a) for the lift, the requirements for periodic maintenance in that alternative standard or those modified requirements; or

(b)

in the case of any other lift —

(i)

the requirements for periodic maintenance in the manufacturer’s recommendations for the lift; and

(ii)

the requirements for periodic maintenance in —

(A)	the standard that the lift was designed to; or
(B)	despite sub-paragraph (A), the alternative standard or modification of requirements accepted by the Commissioner under regulation 17(4B)(a) for the lift. [S 875/2018 wef 15/01/2019]

(2A) If the maintenance works for the lift cannot be carried out in accordance with the maintenance requirements in Part 1 of the First Schedule, the lift service contractor may apply to the Commissioner in the form and manner required by the Commissioner, for an alternative maintenance requirement to be accepted by the Commissioner in respect of each maintenance requirement in Part 1 of that Schedule that cannot be complied with.

[S 875/2018 wef 15/01/2019]

(2B) The Commissioner may accept an alternative maintenance requirement proposed by the lift service contractor if —

(a)	the maintenance requirement in Part 1 of the First Schedule for which the alternative maintenance requirement is proposed cannot be complied with; and
(b)	the alternative maintenance requirement will not affect the safe operation of the lift. [S 875/2018 wef 15/01/2019]

(2C) To avoid doubt, parts of the same lift may be subject to different requirements.

[S 875/2018 wef 15/01/2019]

(3) The lift service contractor must carry out the maintenance works —

(a)

in the case of a home lift, vertical platform lift or stairlift —

(i)	at the frequency recommended in the manufacturer’s recommendations for periodic maintenance (where available); or
(ii)	once every 3 months,

whichever is more frequent; or

(b)

in the case of any other lift —

(i)

if a remote monitoring and diagnostics solution is used for the lift and the Commissioner has granted a written approval under regulation 13A — at the frequency approved by the Commissioner; or

(ii)

in any other case —

(A)	at the frequency recommended in the manufacturer’s recommendations for periodic maintenance (where available); or
(B)	once every month,

whichever is more frequent.

[S 637/2022 wef 01/08/2022]

(4) A person must not carry out any maintenance works on a lift unless the person is a lift service contractor.

(5) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1), (2), (3) or (4) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.

[S 875/2018 wef 15/01/2019]

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