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thereof as may be required by the Director or as may be prescribed by regulations.

(2) The owner of an aerial ropeway shall permit the Director to inspect and copy all such plans, records and documents kept by the owner in connexion therewith, and the owner shall afford facilities for such inspection or copying as may from time to time be reasonably required by the Director.

26. For the purpose of enabling the Director to ascertain any arrangements which are made or are about to be made by the owner of an aerial ropeway for the fulfilment of the owner's obligations under this Ordinance, the owner shall, on the request of the Director forthwith furnish him with such information as to the operation or maintenance of the aerial ropeway or any building, structure, machinery, equipment or plan connected therewith as he may require.

PART VI

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

27. (1) Any person who-

(0) contravenes section 16:

(6) contravenes section 17(1) or (2);

(c) fails to comply with a requirement of the Director under section

18(1) or fails to comply with section 18(2) or (3);

(d) fails to comply with a requirement of the Director under section

1903) or fails to comply with section 19(2);

(e) contravenes section 20(1) or 21;

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resumes the use and operation of an aerial ropeway in contraven- tion of the Director's refusal under section 22(2) to permit such resumption,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $10,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months and in the case of a con- tinuing offence to an additional fine of $100 for each day during which the offence is continued,

(2) Any person who contravenes section 25 or who wilfully refuses to supply information requested of him by the Director under section 26 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

(3) Any person who obstructs the Director or any public officer in the exercise of his powers under section 13 or section 23 shati be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.

PART VII

MISCELLANEOUS

28. The Governor in Council may by regulation provide for- (a) the manner of making application for and granting of approval of plans of installution works, specifications, calculations and the method and programme of installation, and the granting of approval to commence aporation of an aerial ropeway:

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(6) the design, manufacture and installation of aerial ropeways

including-

(1) the properties and design strength of materials to be used: (1) track and section, gradients and deviations;

(ii) the support of cables;

(iv) the distance of carriers and cables from the ground, and lateral clearances;

(v) profile of free space;

(vi) passage above buildings;

(vii) alignment of cables and crossing of other tracks; (viii) speed;

(ix) rescue equipment;

(0) cables;

(xi) drives and brakes,

(xii) safety devices;

(xiii) signalling and communication;

(xiv) anchorages and tensioning devices;

(xv) pylon equipment:

(xvi) carriers;

(xvii) carriages, clamps and attachments;

(xviii) stations and pylous;

(xix) testing; and

(xx) calculations;

(c) the operation, maintenance and examination of aerial ropeways

including

empowering the Director to approve persons who may be employed in the operation and maintenance of serial ropeways;

(10) examinations and tests;

(ii) records and logs; and

(iv) reports of accidents and investigations thereof;

(the safety of persons using, or employed in the operation and

maintenance of, aerial ropeways;

(e) the prevention and abatement of nuisances arising from the use

and operation of an aerial ropeway!

(f) the abatement of fire bazarda in relation to an aerial ropeway; ()the illumination or marking of an acrial ropeway, including any

cables or pylons used in connexion therewith;

(A) the number of persons who may be carried on an aerial ropeway

at any one time;

(0 what are major alterations to an aerial ropeway for the purposes

of this Ordinance:

00 fees;

(4) forms; and

( the better carrying into effect of this Ordinance.

29. The Director may exempt any aerial ropeway from all or any acoplan provision of this Ordinance or the Code subject to such conditions as he thinks it.