Hong Kong Regulations

AERIAL ROPEWAYS (OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 5

Grounds for approval of surveyor, competent person or operator

(1) Where, on an application for the approval of a person as a surveyor, the
Director is satisfied that, by reason of the applicant's training,
qualifications and practical experience, he is competent to carry out the
tests and examinations required by these regulations to be carried out by a
surveyor, he shall approve that person as a surveyor.

(2) Where, on an application for the approval of a person as a
competent person, the Director is satisfied that, by reason of the applicant's
training, qualifications and practical experience, he is competent to perform
the duties required by these regulations to be performed by a
competent person, he shall approve that person as a competent person.

(3) Where, on an application for the approval of a person as a controller or
operator, the Director is satisfied that, by reason of the applicant's
training and practical experience, he is competent to perform the duties
required by these regulations to be performed by an operator, he shall approve
that person as a controller or operator, as the case may be.

(4) Where the Director approves a person as a surveyor, competent  person,
controller or operator, he shall issue that person with a certificate of
approval, which in the case of an operator, may limit the duties which that
operator may perform and which may be subject to such conditions as the
Director thinks fit.

(5) Where the Director has issued an operator with a limited certificate of
approval under paragraph (4), the operator shall not, in the operation of the
aerial ropeway, perform any duties for which he has not been approved.

(6) Where paragraph (5) is contravened, the operator commits an offence.

(7) The Director may, on application by an operator holding a limited
certificate of approval and on payment of the fee prescribed in the
Aerial Ropeways (Fees) Regulation ( Cap 211 sub. leg. B), amend that
certificate by altering the duties which that operator may perform, varying
the conditions or by removing all the limitations or conditions. (L.N. 40 of
1993)

(8) The Director may revoke a certificate of approval issued to a surveyor,
competent person, controller or operator if the holder thereof has been
convicted of any offence under these regulations.