Pursuant to Regulation 5 of the Health and Safety in Employment (Pressure Equipment, Cranes, and Passenger Ropeways) Regulations 1999, I, Graham Baker, for the Secretary of Labour, hereby give notice of exemption from Regulation 10 (2), which requires all practicable steps be taken to ensure equipment is not operated without a current certificate of inspection, to controllers of hand-held surface ropeways, subject to the following conditions:
1. This exemption does not apply to surface ropeways of the overhead travelling wire type (which includes Platter and T-Bar ropeways); and
2. The exemption relates only to the type of equipment exempted.
Dated at Wellington this 8th day of January 2003.
GRAHAM BAKER, for the Secretary of Labour.