The Lifts Regulations 1997

5.    Surveillance under the responsibility of the notified body

The manufacturer of the safety components or his authorized representative must, for a period of 10 years after the last safety component has been manufactured, keep at the disposal of the national authorities:

• the documentation referred to in the second indent of the second paragraph of Section 3.1,

• the updating referred to in the second paragraph of Section 3.4,

• the decisions and reports from the notified body which are referred to in the final paragraph of Section 3.4 and in Sections 4.3 and 4.4.

Where neither the manufacturer of the safety components nor his authorized representative is established in the Community, the obligation to keep the technical documentation available falls to the person who places the safety component on the Community market.