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(1) In this Regulation, “bar lift” means a passenger ropeway that pulls passengers by means of devices propelled by an overhead circulating hauling rope where the passengers remain in contact with the ground or snow surface; “chair lift” means a passenger ropeway where passengers are carried on chairs, (a) attached to and suspended from a circulating wire rope, or (b) attached to a circulating wire rope and supported by a standing wire rope or other overhead structure; “construction hoist” means a temporarily installed elevating device equipped with a car or platform that moves vertically in guides, and that is used for hoisting and lowering materials or workers or both, in connection with the construction, alteration, maintenance or demolition of a building or structure; “counter-balanced type manlift” means a manlift equipped with a passenger-carrying unit in the form of a car, the motion of which is obtained by means of the application of hand energy or gravity; “dumbwaiter” means an elevating device equipped with a car that moves vertically in guides and is used exclusively for lifting or lowering freight between two or more floors of a building or structure and that has a maximum capacity of 225 kilograms, a maximum floor area of 0.85 square metres and a maximum inside height of 1.25 metres; “elevating device for the handicapped” means an elevating device specifically designed to be used by a person with a physical handicap travelling between fixed points of a building or structure where the elevating device is restricted as to access, speed, travel and type of operating devices; “elevator” means an elevating device equipped with a car that moves vertically in guides and that serves two or more floors of a building or structure; “endless belt type manlift” means a manlift equipped with one or more passenger-carrying units in the form of steps and handholds attached to a power driven endless belt; “escalator” means an elevating device in the form of a power-driven, inclined continuous stairway used for raising or lowering persons; “existing” when used in reference to an elevating device or part thereof means any elevating device or part thereof for which a design submission was approved or installation of which was completed before the 1st day of May, 1981; “fibre rope tow” means a rope tow having a natural or synthetic fibre hauling rope; “freight elevator” means an elevator used primarily for carrying freight and on which only an attendant and freight handler are permitted to ride; “freight elevator—E” means a freight elevator upon which employees of the owner of the elevator are permitted to ride as passengers; “freight platform lift” means an elevating device that is restricted as to use, location, access, speed, travel and type of operating devices and that is equipped with a platform that moves vertically; “freight platform lift—Type A” means a freight platform lift restricted to the carriage of freight only; “freight platform lift—Type B” means a freight platform lift restricted to the carriage of freight and on which an attendant or freight handler may ride; “funicular railway” means an incline lift in the form of a railway where the ascending car and the descending car, connected by a driven rope, counter-balance each other; “gondola lift” means a passenger ropeway where passengers are carried in enclosed gondola cars, (a) attached to and suspended from a circulating wire rope, or (b) attached to a circulating wire rope and supported by a standing wire rope or other overhead structure; “hand-power dumbwaiter” means a dumbwaiter utilizing manual energy or gravity to move the car; “hand-power freight elevator” means an elevator that utilizes manual energy or gravity to move the car and that is used for carrying freight only; “incline lift” means an elevating device equipped with a car or platform that moves at an angle other than vertical and serves two or more permanent levels but does not include a stair platform lift; “licence” means a licence issued under the Act; “maintenance” means regularly scheduled or other action taken to ensure that an elevating device is and will remain in safe operating condition and “maintain” has a corresponding meaning; “major alteration” means an alteration that results in a substantial change to the original design, inherent safety or operational characteristics of an elevating device and without limiting the generality of the foregoing includes, (a) an increase by more than 10 per cent in, (i) the rated speed of the load-carrying unit, (ii) the maximum capacity, or (iii) the dead-weight of the machine, load-carrying unit or counter-weight, (b) except for construction hoists, an increase or decrease in the distance of the travel of the load-carrying unit, (c) a change in, (i) the method or type of operation, (ii) the method or type of control, (iii) the type or size of guide rails or other guiding means for the load-carrying unit or counter-weight, (iv) the type of safety device or other safety stopping device for the load-carrying unit or counter-weight, (v) the power supply to the machine, (vi) the type of the driving machine or brake, (vii) the location of the elevating device, machine, load-carrying unit or counter-weight, or (viii) the working pressure of a hydraulic system by more than 10 per cent, (d) changes that would result in a reclassification of the elevating device, (e) the addition of a car or hoistway entrance to the elevating device; “manlift” means an elevating device commonly known as a “manlift” that moves vertically in guides and serves two or more floors of a building or structure and that is equipped with a passenger-carrying unit the use of which is restricted; “material construction hoist” means a construction hoist restricted to the carriage of materials, where workers may enter the car or platform for the purpose of loading or unloading only; “minor alteration” means an alteration that results in a minor change to the original design, inherent safety or operational characteristics of an elevating device and without limiting the generality of the foregoing includes, (a) a change in the size or number of hoisting, hauling, counter-weight, overspeed governor or compensating ropes, (b) the addition of, (i) a safety device or any other safety stopping device for the load-carrying unit or counterweight, (ii) special emergency service, emergency recall, in-car emergency service, firefighter’s elevator designations or any similar special service, (c) the replacement of any of the following components with components differing from the original in design or manufacture, but without any change in overall technical, operation or safety characteristics of the elevating device: 1. A safety device or any other safety stopping device for the load-carrying unit or counterweight. 2. A device which actuates the device referred to in paragraph 1. 3. A supporting structure or foundation. 4. A driving machine or brake. 5. A hydraulic cylinder or plunger. 6. The tower switches of a passenger ropeway, (d) the addition of, (i) a hoistway door locking device, (ii) car door or gate electric contacts, (iii) hoistway inspection switches, (iv) a top of car operating device, (v) a hoistway door or car door or gate operating device, (vi) car levelling or truck zoning devices, (e) a major rebuilding or replacement of any of the following components with components differing from original design or manufacture, but without any change in the inherent safety or operational characteristics of the elevating device: 1. Controller. 2. Hoistway doors. 3. Door or gate locking devices, (f) any replacement, other than a replacement that differs from the original in design or manufacture or rebuilding of, (i) a safety device or other safety stopping device for the load-carrying unit or counterweight, (ii) a device that actuates a device referred to in subclause (i), (iii) a worm or gear of a driving machine, (iv) a hydraulic cylinder or plunger, (g) any replacement or readjustment of a component previously sealed by an inspector in accordance with section 33, (h) any increase or decrease in the distance of travel of the load-carrying unit of a worker’s rail-guided or material construction hoist; “minor alteration—Type A” means a minor alteration of a type referred to in clause (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of “minor alteration”; “minor alteration—Type B” means a minor alteration of a type referred to in clause (d), (e), (f), (g) or (h) of the definition of “minor alteration”; “moving walk” means an elevating device that moves passengers on an uninterrupted load-carrying surface that remains parallel to its direction of motion; “new”, when referring to an elevating device or part thereof, means any elevating device or part thereof, for which a design submission is registered or the installation of which is completed on or after the 1st day of May, 1981; “observation elevator” means a passenger elevator designed to permit exterior viewing by passengers while riding in the car; “passenger elevator” means an elevator used primarily for carrying persons; “passenger ropeway” means an elevating device used to transport persons; “power type manlift” means a manlift equipped with a passenger-carrying unit in the form of a car, the motion of which is obtained by means of the application of energy other than by hand or gravity; “reversible ropeway” means a passenger ropeway where passengers arecarried in one or more cars fixed to a hauling rope that is independent of a track rope, and where the cars reciprocate between terminals; “ropetow” means a passenger ropeway where persons grasp a circulating hauling rope or a handle or similar device attached to the rope and are propelled by the tow while remaining in contact with the ground or snow surface; “sidewalk elevator” means a freight elevator that operates between a sidewalk or other area exterior to a building and floor levels inside the building that are below the sidewalk or other area exterior to the building and that has no landing opening into the building at its upper limit of travel; “stage lift” means an elevating device used for lifting or lowering persons or freight in or about a stage or orchestra pit; “stairchair lift” means an elevating device for the handicapped that is equipped with a passenger-carrying unit in the form of one or two attached chairs that moves substantially in the direction of a flight of stairs or ramp at a mean angle of not more than 45 degrees; “stair platform lift” means an elevating device for the handicapped that is equipped with a platform that moves substantially in the direction of a flight of stairs or ramp at a mean angle of not more than 45 degrees; “stair platform lift—Type C” means a stair platform lift where the runway is guarded so as to physically prevent access to it; “stair platform lift—Type D” means a stair platform lift where the runway is not guarded so as to physically prevent access to it; “standard design submission” means a design submission for a type of elevating device that is intended to be installed in more than one location and that may incorporate the use of alternative interchangeable components but does not include information relating to the location of individual installations; “temporary elevator” means a passenger or freight elevator in a building under construction that is used for carrying workers or materials or both prior to the completion of the building; “vertical platform lift” means an elevating device for the handicapped equipped with a platform that moves vertically; “vertical platform lift—Type C” means a vertical platform lift having a fully enclosed runway; “vertical platform lift—Type D” means a vertical platform lift having a partially enclosed or unenclosed runway; “wire rope tow” means a rope tow having a metallic hauling rope; “workers’ rail-guided construction hoist” means a construction hoist used for carrying workers and materials where the load-carrying unit is guided by rails; “workers’ rope-guided construction hoist” means a construction hoist used for carrying workers and materials where the load-carrying unit is guided by ropes. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), elevator, dumbwaiter, escalator, moving walk, manlift, passenger ropeway, incline lift, construction hoist, stage lift, freight platform lift, stair platform lift, vertical platform lift and stair chair lift include the machine room, hoistway and hoistway enclosure, supporting structure, terminals and runway, as the case may be, that is provided in conjunction therewith. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 316, s. 1.