Hong Kong Regulations

AERIAL ROPEWAYS (OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 22

Visual examination of carrying-hauling rope and hauling rope by competent person

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and regulation 23(2), the competent  person in
charge of an aerial ropeway that has a carrying-hauling rope or hauling rope
shall examine the rope visually-

   (a)  prior to the commencement of operation; and

   (b)  where the ropeway has been put into operation, at intervals not
        exceeding 30 days, but the examination shall not be carried out on a
        day on which a surveyor carries out a visual examination or takes
        defectograph readings in respect of the rope under regulation 20.

(2) Where deterioration or other changes affecting the strength of the
carrying-hauling rope or hauling rope have set in, the Director may require
the competent person in charge of the aerial ropeway to examine the rope
visually at such other times as the Director may determine.

(3) The competent person in charge of an aerial ropeway shall ensure that, at
the time the examination is carried out under paragraph

(1) or (2), the carrying-hauling rope or hauling rope is run at a speed not
exceeding 0.3 m a second.

(4) The owner of an aerial ropeway shall ensure that a report of every
examination required to be carried out under this regulation, prepared by the
competent person carrying out the examination, is sent to the Director as soon
as reasonably possible after the examination is completed. (L.N. 122 of 2003)