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B.C. Reg. 15/2002

The

British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

February 12, 2002

B.C. Reg. 15/2002, deposited February 1, 2002,

pursuant to the ELEVATING DEVICES SAFETY ACT [Section 32 (2) (a)]. Order

in Council 70/2002, approved and ordered January 31, 2002.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant

Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders

that

section 22 of the Elevating Devices Safety Regulation, B.C. Reg. 28/90, is

amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (5) and substituting the following:

(5) If fire resistive material construction is not

required by the applicable building safety ordinance, code or enforcing

authority having jurisdiction, hoistway enclosures may include panels of glass,

provided that the panels

(

a) are made of laminated glass that conforms to the

material requirements of the National Standard of Canada, Tempered or Laminated

Safety Glass, CAN/CGSB-12.1-M90, or

(

b) are of a design and construction method using an

arrangement of glass, combined with other materials, that

(

i) meets the requirements of subsection (7), and

(ii) provides a performance and level of safety

equivalent to laminated glass that conforms to the requirements in paragraph

(a). , and

(

b) by adding the following subsections:

(6) A professional engineer must provide verification of

the equivalency required by subsection (5) (b).

(7) If a hoistway enclosure panel fails, regardless of

the type of material used and whether or not fire resistive material

construction is required, the failure must be such that objects projected from a

source external to the hoistway enclosure, or fragments of the failed panel,

will not enter the hoistway. — G. ABBOTT, Minister of Community, Aboriginal

and Women's Services; C. CLARK, Presiding Member of the Executive

Council.

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