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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 3, 1930.
Pilotage not compulsory.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 3 of 1904.
Temporary
provisions as regards licences
issued under Ordinance No. 3 of 1904.
28. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to make the employment of any pilot within the waters of the Colony compulsory.
29. The Pilots Ordinance, 1904, and all regulations in force thereunder, are repealed.
30. Every licence issued under the Pilots Ordinance, 1904, which was 'n force immediately before the coming into operation of this Ordinance shall continue to be in force after such coming into operation, in all respects as if it had been issued under this Ordinance, and shall be subject to all the provisions of this Ordinance, whether as regards the necessity for annual renewal, liability to revocation or suspension, or otherwise, save only that no such licence shall expire by mere effluxion of time until the 31st day of December, 1930; and every holder of any such licence shall be liable to all the obligations imposed by or under this Ordinance on pilots licensed thereunder.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 2nd day of October, 1930.
N. L. SMITH, Deputy Clerk of Councils.
SCHEDULE.
[ss. 4, 8, 14.]
REGULATIONS.
1. Every applicant for a pilot's licence-
(a) must be able to speak English ;
(b) must produce two copies of a photograph of him- self, one to be attached to the licence and the other to the counterfoil of it;
(c) must hold a local certificate of competency as master issued under Regulation 16 of Table E in the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordi- nance, 1899;
(d) must not be less than 23 years of age; (e) must produce documentary evidence to the satis- faction of the Board of Examiners of at least three years service as a seaman in foreign going ships, other than river steamers, regularly calling at Hong Kong;
(f) must satisfy the Board of Examiners that he has served at least two years apprenticeship to a pilot holding a licence under this Ordinance or who held a licence under the Pilots Ordinance, 1904;
(g) must satisfy the Board of Examiners that during his period of apprenticeship he has, under the direction of a pilot holding a licence under this Ordinance or a pilot who held a licence under the Pilots Ordinance, 1904, piloted a ship into the Harbour of Victoria on forty occasions and that he piloted a ship out of the Harbour of Victoria on forty occasions;
(h) that at least twenty different ships must have been piloted among the eighty occasions referred to in paragraph (9);
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