Scaffolding and Lifts (Amendment) Act 1978 (ACT)

No. 17 of 1978

AN ORDINANCE

To amend the Scaffolding and Lifts Ordinance 1957

I, T H E GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated this twenty-first day of June 1978.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

R. ELLICOTT

Minister of State for the Capital Territory

SCAFFOLDING AND LIFTS (AMENDMENT)

ORDINANCE 1978

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Scaffolding and Lifts

(Amendment) Ordinance 1978.*

2. Part I of the Schedule to the Scaffolding and Lifts Ordinance

1957f is amended by inserting the following item after item 9A:

Item	Provision
No .	modified Modification
9B	Part III Add at the end thereof—

Authorised by the ACT Parliamentary Counsel—also accessible at

" 12A. (1) The lessee of a building containing a passenger lift

shall ensure—

(a) that a notice bearing the words " S M O K I N G IS

PROHIBITED", or words to the like effect, is at all times displayed in a prominent part of the car of the lift; and

(b) that the notice is clearly visible and readily legible from the inside of the car.

Penalty: $100.

" (2) A person using a passenger lift in which such a notice is

displayed shall not smoke in the car of the lift.

Penalty: S25.
" (3) It is a defence to a prosecution for an offence against sub­

section (1) that the commission of the offence arose out of the act of a person other than an employee of the defendant, being an act done without the knowledge or consent of the defendant.".

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 July 1978.

t Ordinance N o . 8, 1957 as amended by N o . 19, 1966; N o . 5, 1968; N o . 26, 1974; N o . 7, 1976; and N o . 28

1977.