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30. Every licence issued under the Pilots Ordinance, Temporary 1904, which was u force immediately before the coming provisions into operation of this Ordinance shall continue to be in as regards
licences force after such coming into operation, in all respects as if
issued under it had been issued under this Ordinance, and shall be Ordinance subject to all the provisions of this Ordinance, whether as No. 3 of regards the necessity for annual renewal, liability to 1904. revocation or suspension, or otherwise, save only that no such licence shall expire by mere effluxion of time uutil 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.
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;
(9) 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);
() that at least five of the ships referred to in para- graph (2) must have been different ships of at least 8,000 tons gross register;
() that on at least ten of the eighty occasions referred to in paragraph (g) ships of at least 8,000 tons gross register must have been piloted;
Provided that the Board of Examiners may dispense with any of the above requirements in the case of an applicant who held a licence under the Pilots Ordinance, 1904, but who was not the holder of such a licence at the time of coming into operation of the Pilots Ordinance, 1930, if they are otherwise satisfied of the fitness of the applicant to hold a pilot's licence under the Pilots Ordinance, 1930.