34.-(1) The following provisions shall be complied with as respects every chain, rope or lifting tackle used for the purpose of raising or lowering persons, goods or materials:-
(a) no chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be used unless it is of good construction, sound material, adequate strength and free from patent defect;
(b) a table showing the safe working loads of every kind and size of chain, rope or lifting tackle in use, and, in the case of a multiple sling, the safe working load at different angles of the legs, shall be posted in the store in which the chains, ropes or lifting tackle are kept, and in prominent positions on the premises, and no chain, rope or lifting tackle not shown in the said table shall be used, so, however, that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply in relation to any lifting tackle if the safe working load thereof, or, in the case of a multiple sling, the safe working load at different angles of the legs, is plainly marked upon it;
(c) no chain, rope or lifting tackle shall be used for any load exceeding the safe working load thereof as shown by the table aforesaid or marked upon it as aforesaid;
(d) all chains, ropes and lifting tackle in use shall be tested and thoroughly examined, at least once in every period of six months or at such greater intervals as the Υπουργός may direct, by a person το οποίο ορίζει ο κάτοχος του εργοστασίου και το οποίο κατέχει την απαιτούμενη πείρα και γνώσεις για την ασφαλή διεξαγωγή, τον έλεγχο και την επιθεώρηση της υπό εκτέλεση εργασίας, and such person shall, if satisfied with the conditions of the chains, ropes and lifting tackle, issue a certificate to that effect;
(e) no chain, rope or lifting tackle, except a fibre rope or fibre rope sling, shall be taken into use in any factory for the first time in that factory unless it has been tested and thoroughly examined by a person το οποίο ορίζει ο κάτοχος του εργοστασίου και το οποίο κατέχει την απαιτούμενη πείρα και τις γνώσεις για την ασφαλή διεξαγωγή, τον έλεγχο και την επιθεώρηση της υπό εκτέλεση εργασίας as aforesaid and a certificate of such a test and examination, specifying the safe working load and signed by the person making the test and examination, has been obtained and is kept available for inspection;
(f) every chain and lifting tackle, except a rope sling, shall, unless of a class or description exempted by the Chief Inspector, by certificate published in the Gazette, upon the ground that it is made of such material or so constructed that it cannot be subjected to heat treatment without risk of damage or that it has been subjected to some form of heat treatment (other than annealing) approved by him, be annealed at least once in every fourteen months, or, in the case of chains or slings of half-inch bar or smaller, or chains used in connection with molten metal or molten slag, in every six months, so, however, that chains and lifting tackle not in regular use need be annealed only when necessary;
(g) a register containing the following particulars shall be kept with respect to all such chains, ropes or lifting tackle, except fibre rope slings:-
(i) name of occupier of factory;
(ii) address and location of factory;
(iii) distinguishing number or mark and description sufficient to identify the chain, rope or lifting tackle;
(iv) date (if after the coming into operation of this Law) when the chain, rope or lifting tackle was first taken into use in the factory;
(v) date of each examination made under paragraph (d) of this subsection, and the name of the person by whom it was carried out;
(vi) particulars of any defect found at any such examination and affecting the safe working load, and of the steps taken to remedy such defect;
(vii) date and number of the certificate relating to any test and examination made under paragraph (e) of this subsection together with the name and address of the person who issued the certificate;
(viii) dates of annealing or other heat treatment.
(2) In this section the expression “lifting tackle” means chain slings, rope slings, rings, hooks, shackles and swivels.