Hong Kong Regulations

AIR NAVIGATION (HONG KONG) ORDER 1995 - SECT 13

Equipment of aircraft

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 36 of 1999 s. 3

(1) An aircraft shall not fly unless it is so equipped as to comply with the
law of the country in which it is registered, and to enable lights and
markings to be displayed, and signals to be made in accordance with this Order
and any regulations made thereunder.

(2) In the case of any aircraft registered in Hong Kong the equipment required
to be provided (in addition to any other equipment required by or under this
Order) shall be that specified in such parts of Schedule 5 to this Order as
are applicable in the circumstances and shall comply with the provisions of
that Schedule. The equipment, except that specified in paragraph (3) of the
said Schedule, shall be of a type approved by the Chief Executive either
generally or in relation to a class of aircraft or in relation to that
aircraft and shall be installed in a manner so approved.

(3) In any particular case the Chief Executive may direct that an aircraft
registered in Hong Kong shall carry such additional or special equipment or
supplies as he may specify for the purpose of facilitating the navigation of
the aircraft, the carrying out of search and rescue operations, or the
survival of the persons carried in the aircraft.

(4) The equipment carried in compliance with this Article shall be so
installed or stowed and kept stowed, and so maintained and adjusted, as to be
readily accessible and capable of being used by the person for whose use it is
intended.

(5) The position of equipment provided for emergency use shall be indicated by
clear markings in or on the aircraft. In particular in every public transport
aircraft registered in Hong Kong there shall be:

   (a)  provided individually for each passenger; or

   (b)  if the Chief Executive so permits in writing, exhibited in a prominent
        position in every passenger compartment; a notice relevant to the
        aircraft in question containing pictorial:

        (i)    instructions on the brace position to be adopted in the event
               of an emergency landing;

        (ii)   instructions on the method of use of safety belts and safety
               harnesses as appropriate;

        (iii)  information as to where emergency exits are to be found and
               instructions as to how they are to be used; and

        (iv)   information as to where the life-jackets, escape slides,
               life-rafts and oxygen masks, if required to be provided by
               paragraph (2) of this Article, are to be found and instructions
               as to how they are to be used.

(6) All equipment installed or carried in an aircraft, whether or not in
compliance with this Article, shall be so installed or stowed and so
maintained and adjusted as not to be a source of danger in itself or to impair
the airworthiness of the aircraft or the proper functioning of any equipment
or services necessary for the safety of the aircraft.

(7) Without prejudice to paragraph (2) of this Article, all navigational
equipment (other than radio apparatus) of any of the following types, namely:

   (a)  equipment capable of establishing the aircraft's position in relation
        to its position at some earlier time by computing and applying the
        resultant of the acceleration and gravitational forces acting upon it;
        and

   (b)  equipment capable of establishing automatically the altitude and
        relative bearing of selected celestial bodies; when carried in an
        aircraft registered in Hong Kong (whether or not in compliance with
        this Order or any regulations made thereunder) shall be of a type
        approved by the Chief Executive either generally or in relation to a
        class of aircraft or in relation to that aircraft and shall be
        installed in a manner so approved.

(8) This Article shall not apply in relation to radio apparatus except that
specified in Schedule 5 to this Order.

(36 of 1999 s. 3)