35.-(1) All parts and working gear, whether fixed or movable, including the anchoring and fixing appliances, of every lifting machine, shall be of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect, and shall be properly maintained.
(2) All such parts and gear as aforesaid υπόκεινται εις εξέτασιν αμέσως προ της εγκαταστάσεως και της διά πρώτην φοράν χρήσεως αυτών εν τινι εργοστασίω, μετέπειτα δε άπαξ τουλάχιστον ανά διαστήματα δεκατεσσάρων μηνών, by a person approved for the purposes of this section by the Υπουργός by certificate in writing, and a register shall be kept containing the following particulars of every such examination:-
(i) name of occupier of factory;
(ii) address of factory;
(iii) distinguishing number or mark (if any) and description sufficient to identify the crane or other lifting machine;
(iv) date of each examination made under this subsection, and name of the person by whom it was carried out;
(v) particulars of any defect found at any such examination and affecting the safe working load, and of the steps taken to remedy such defect.
(3) All rails on which a travelling crane moves and every track on which the carriage of a transporter or runway moves shall be of proper size and adequate strength and have an even running surface; and any such rails or track shall be properly laid, adequately supported or suspended and properly maintained.
(4) There shall be plainly marked on every lifting machine the safe working load or loads thereof, except that in the case of a jib crane so constructed that the safe working load may be varied by the raising or lowering of the jib, there shall be attached thereto either an authomatic indicator of safe working loads or a table indicating the safe working loads at corresponding inclinations of the jib or corresponding radii of the load.
(5) No lifting machine shall, except for the purpose of a test, be loaded beyond the safe working load as marked or indicated under subsection (4).
(6) No lifting machine shall be taken into use in any factory for the first time in that factory unless-
(a) it has been tested, and all such parts and working gear of the machine as are specified in subsection (1) have been thoroughly examined, by a person approved by the Υπουργός for the purposes of this section by certificate in writing; and
(b) a certificate of such a test and examination, specifying the safe working load or loads of the machine and signed by the person making the test and examination, has been obtained and is kept available for inspection.
(7) If any person is employed or working on or near the wheeltrack of an overhead travelling crane in any place where he would be liable to be struck by the crane, effective measures shall be taken to ensure that the crane does not approach within six metres of that place.
Νοείται ότι οσάκις πρόσωπον τι απασχολήται ή εργάζεται εν οιωδήποτε τόπω εις σημείον κείμενον υπέρ το δάπεδον ένθα δυνατόν να κτυπηθή υπό υπεράνω αυτού κυλιομένης γερανογεφύρας, δέον όπως λαμβάνωνται αποτελεσματικά μέτρα προς προειδοποίησιν αυτού περί της προσεγγίσεως του γερανού, εκτός εάν η εργασία αυτού τοσούτον σχετίζεται ή εξαρτάται εκ των κινήσεων του γερανού ώστε να καθίσταται περιττή οιαδήποτε προειδοποίησις.
(8) In this section, the expression “lifting machine” means a crane, crab, winch, teagle, pulley block, gin wheel, transporter or runway.