Hong Kong Regulations

ELECTRICITY (WIRING) REGULATIONS - REGULATION 16

Overhead line installations

(1) A low voltage overhead line shall be designed, constructed, installed and
protected so as to prevent danger.

(2) The height above ground of a low voltage overhead line at any point of the
span shall not be less than 5.8 m across any place accessible to vehicular
traffic and 5.2 m otherwise.

(3) No overhead line operating at high voltage shall be installed without the
Director's approval. (Enacted 1990)