Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

Keeping of information

11.—(1) Where, after the coming into operation of these Regulations, an employer obtaining lifting equipment to which these Regulations apply receives an EC declaration of conformity relating to it, he shall keep the declaration for so long as he operates the lifting equipment.

(2) The employer shall ensure that the information contained in—

(a)every report made to him under regulation 10(1)(b) is kept available for inspection—

(i)in the case of a thorough examination under paragraph (1) of regulation 9 of lifting equipment other than an accessory for lifting, until he ceases to use the lifting equipment;

(ii)in the case of a thorough examination under paragraph (1) of regulation 9 of an accessory for lifting, for two years after the report is made;

(iii)in the case of a thorough examination under paragraph (2) of regulation 9, until he ceases to use the lifting equipment at the place it was installed or assembled;

(iv)in the case of a thorough examination under paragraph (3) of regulation 9, until the next report is made under that paragraph or the expiration of two years, whichever is later;

(b)every record made under regulation 10(2) is kept available until the next such record is made.