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 2. (1) This Regulation applies to all elevating devices and parts thereof and to their design, construction, installation, erection, maintenance, alteration, use and service except where otherwise indicated.  O. Reg. 209/01, s. 2 (1). (2) The code adoption document applies to all elevating devices or parts thereof, except as provided in section 4 or otherwise indicated in the code adoption document.  O. Reg. 252/08, s. 2 (1). (3) This Regulation does not apply to, (a)  elevating devices in or in connection with, (i)  private dwelling houses used exclusively by the occupants and their guests, unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to them, (ii)  embassies or diplomatic delegations of foreign sovereign countries, unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to them, (iii)  ships and vessels unless permanently moored and used by the public, or unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to them, (iv)  launching and retrieving ships, boats or watercraft that are adjacent to the coast lines of Ontario waterways, unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to those activities, (v)  mines and mining plants regulated under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, (vi)  elevating device test facilities in the manufacturer’s facilities used for the purpose of product research, development and training on elevating devices, or unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to them, or (vii)  training facilities used only for the training of mechanics, unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to them; (b)  feeding machines or belt, bucket, scoop, roller or similar type of freight conveyor or material handling device; (c)  appliances that feed materials into or positions materials at a machine tool, printing press, furnace or processing equipment; (d)  a lifting device that is an intermediate part of a fully automatic conveyor or material handling system; (e)  freight ramps having a means of adjusting the slope of the ramp; (f)  freight platforms on which persons are prohibited from riding that have a rise of two metres or less, or unless the owner requests in writing that they apply to them; (g)  lubrication hoists or other similar mechanisms; (h)  pilling or stacking machines used within one storey; (i)  elevating devices that are installed in or adjacent to a barn and are used by the proprietor of the barn or a tenant thereof exclusively for their agricultural purposes; (j)  lifting devices that are, (i)  at each entrance mechanically loaded or unloaded by a conveyor or other fixed mechanism, (ii)  so fenced in or guarded as to prevent persons from accidentally entering the hoistway, (iii)  in a location inaccessible to the general public, and (iv)  controlled by designated trained personnel only; (k)  powered platforms that are designed to provide access to the exterior or interior of a building or structure and that consist of a suspended working platform, a roof car, or other suspension means and track or guidance systems; (l)  automated window cleaning mechanisms; (m)  dumbwaiters, having a car-floor area of less than 0.2 square metres, maximum capacity less than 10 kilograms and the sill of every hoistway opening 0.8 metres or more above floor level, or unless the owner requests that they apply to them; (n)  cranes and hoists for lifting and lowering goods or materials that are provided with unguided hooks or slings to which the goods are attached; (o)  lift bridges; (p)  rotating platforms; (q)  elevating devices for persons with physical disabilities, that have a rise of 600 mm or less and that are not accessible to the general public; (r)  lifting platforms used by camera or spotlight operators; (s)  temporary elevating device exhibits, controlled and supervised by a trained operator but does not include elevating devices enabling access to other exhibits; (t)  a freight platform lift-Type B that has a rise of two metres or less and that operates between a loading dock and the bed of a vehicle used to transport goods; and (u)  worker-positioning platforms that put workers and their equipment in position to work on the interior or exterior of buildings or other structures.  O. Reg. 209/01, s. 2 (3); O. Reg. 252/08, s. 2 (2).