The Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions (Lakshadweep) Rules, 2025
Rule 88. Stability Certificate
Official text
(1) No manufacturing process shall be carried on in any building or part thereof (whether newly constructed, re-constructed, altered, repaired or extended) as a factory or increase in machinery or change in process in any existing factory until a Certificate of Stability in Form-35 in respect thereof, has been accepted by the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator.
(2) The Certificate of Stability shall be signed by the competent person and the occupier jointly, along with the tests and analysis reports relating to stability.
(3) The occupier shall submit the Certificate of Stability to the Inspector-cum-Facilitator on portal.
(4) On receiving the application on portal, if the Inspector- Cum-Facilitator, is satisfied that the Certificate of Stability and attached documents are in accordance with the rules, he may forward the application to the Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator for acceptance or may raise the observations and thereafter, forward the same to the Chief Inspector-cum- Facilitator for consideration and further action. The Chief Inspector-cum- Facilitator after examining the report of Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator shall, either accepts the certificate of stability or may raise observations and application shall be return to applicant or agreeing with the report of the Inspector-cum-Facilitator shall return the application to the applicant for resolving the observations raised.
Provided that observations, by the authorities under the code, on application have to be raised once only to the extent possible and any further observations may only be raised in case new facts or new documents are submitted along with the resolution of the earlier observations.
(5) The application is liable to be rejected in case the application is resubmitted twice without resolving the observations raised or if the application not resubmitted within sixty days from the date of observations raised.
(6) The Stability Certificate accepted under this rule shall be valid for five years from the date of acceptance.
(7) Stability certificate duly signed by the Head of the Civil or Structural Engineering Department and Head of the Institutions mentioned in sub-rule (11) of Rule 4, if submitted within fifteen days from date of signature, shall be deemed to be accepted by Chief Inspector-cum-Facilitator.