Singapore legislation
Regulation 48
Regulation 48
Transitional provisions — applications
Subregulation 1
Paragraph (2) applies when —
a lift or an escalator has been examined, inspected and tested in accordance with regulation 7 or 19 of the revoked Regulations before 1 October 2025;
no application for a permit to operate the lift or escalator under regulation 8 or 20 of the revoked Regulations has been made after the examination, inspection and testing and before 1 October 2025; and
an application for a permit to operate the lift or escalator is made under regulation 30 within 3 months after the examination, inspection and testing.
Subregulation 2
For the purposes of the application under regulation 30 —
the lift or escalator is deemed to have been examined, inspected, tested and commissioned or examined, inspected and tested (as the case may be) in accordance with regulation 29; and
regulation 30(1)(b)(i) and (ii) does not apply to the application.
Subregulation 3
Every proposal referred to in regulation 7(2)(a)(iii) or 13(2)(a)(iii) of the revoked Regulations made before 1 October 2025, but which has not been decided by the Commissioner of Buildings immediately before that date, is deemed to be an application made under regulation 45(1).
Subregulation 4
Every application for an alternative maintenance requirement that is made under regulation 13(2A) or 25(2A) of the revoked Regulations before 1 October 2025, but which has not been decided by the Commissioner of Buildings immediately before that date, is deemed to be an application made under regulation 45(1).
Subregulation 5
Every application for approval that maintenance works on a lift using a particular RM&D solution be carried out at a reduced frequency that is made under regulation 13A(2) of the revoked Regulations before 1 October 2025, but which has not been decided by the Commissioner of Buildings immediately before that date, is deemed to be an application made under regulation 40(2).
Subregulation 6
In this regulation and regulations 49 and 50, “revoked Regulations” means the Building Maintenance and Strata Management (Lift, Escalator and Building Maintenance) Regulations 2016 (G.N. No. S 348/2016) revoked by the Building Maintenance and Strata Management (Lift, Escalator and Building Maintenance) (Revocation) Regulations 2025 (G.N. No. S 619/2025).