To regulate a position of an elevator car where a maintenance and inspection person is allowed to get on the car easily and safely by simple constitution, so as to enhance safety and to quicken working for maintenance and inspection, in a automatic car position regulator for an elevator provided with a motor 5 for driving the car 2 of the elevator arranged movably inside an elevator shaft 1 provided to penetrate every floor of a building.

A function operating switch 11 is provided, for example, in a hatch door 10 of the first floor. A distance D from the first position P1 of a ceiling position of the car 2 in usual stopping upto the second position P2 (for example, a position in a height substantially equal to a floor) which is a ceiling position of the car 2 where the maintenance and inspection person is allowed to move easily between the floor and a ceiling of the car 2 is stored as a distance data in a memory of a controller 12. The car 2 is automatically moved from a position (a) to a position (b) when the switch 11 is turned on.