Hong Kong Regulations

AERIAL ROPEWAYS (OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 21

Prohibition on use of certain ropes

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

The competent person in charge of an aerial ropeway shall ensure that no rope
shall be used in the operation of the ropeway-

   (a)  if the diameter of the rope has been reduced by 10 per cent or more of
        its diameter at the time it was first installed; or (L.N. 122 of 2003)

   (b)  in which the number of broken wires in any length equal to 30 times
        the diameter of the rope exceeds 10 per cent of the total number of
        wires.