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Citation and commencement.

Application for

registration as

an apprentice pilot.

PILOTAGE ORDINANCE 1971.

(No. 73 of 1971).

PILOTAGE REGULATIONS 1971.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 21 of the Pilotage Ordinance 1971, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-

1.

These regulations may be cited as the Pilotage Regula- tions 1971 and shall come into operation on the day appointed for the commencement of the Pilotage Ordinance 1971.

2. (1) An application for registration as an apprentice pilot shall be made in such form as the Authority may determine, and shall contain the particulars required thereby,

(2) On receipt of an application in accordance with paragraph (1) for registration as an apprentice pilot, the Authority shall, if he is satisfied that the applicant possesses the prescribed qualifications and experience, refer the application to the Com- mittee, which shall interview the applicant.

(3) On payment of the prescribed fee, the Authority shall cause the applicant to be examined as to his physical and mental fitness and his eyesight in accordance with section 7(1)(b) and (c) of the Ordinance as if the applicant were applying for a licence.

(4) The Committee shall, after interviewing the applicant in accordance with paragraph (2), report to the Authority whether or not it considers that the applicant ought to be registered as an apprentice pilot.

(5) If

(a) the Authority is satisfied as to the applicant's physical

and mental fitness and eyesight; and

(b) the Committee has reported that it considers the applicant

ought to be registered as an apprentice pilot,

the Authority shall-

(i) enter the name and particulars of the applicant in a register of apprentice pilots maintained by him; and

(ii) notify the applicant in writing of his registration as an apprentice pilot and issue to him an identity book in such form as the Authority may determine.

3.

An application for a licence shall be--

(a) made in such form as the Authority may determine and shall contain the particulars required thereby; and

(b) accompanied by such photographs of the applicant as

the Authority may require.

4. An application for the renewal of a licence shall be in such form as the Authority may determine, and shall contain the particulars required thereby.

5. If at any time it appears to the Authority that the photograph attached to a licence is no longer an adequate like- ness of the holder of the licence, the Authority may require the licensed pilot to furnish two photographs of himself.

(1) The fee payable under section 7(1) of the Ordinance shall be two hundred dollars.

(2) The fee payable under section 8(1) of the Ordinance shall be twenty dollars,

(3) The fee payable under section 9(216) of the Ordinance on the renewal of a licence shall be ten dollars.

(4) The fee payable under section 9(3) of the Ordinance on the issue of a copy of a licence shall be twenty dollars.

(5) The fee payable under section 10(3) of the Ordinance shall be one hundred dollars.

(6) The fee payable under regulation 2(3) shall be one hundred dollars.

7. Every licensed pilot shall, when plying for hire. display at the masthead of his vessel a flag six feet by four feet in size and of two colours, the upper horizontal half thereof being white and the lower horizontal half thereof being red.

8. (1) The Authority may give to a licensed pilot such direc- tions as he considers necessary for the regulation of shipping in the waters of the Colony, including directions requiring a licensed pilot to perform for any ship such pilotage service as may be requested by or on behalf of the master or owner of the ship.

(2) It shall be the duty of a licensed pilot to comply with any directions given under paragraph (1).

Application for licenco.

Application for renewal of licence.

Authority may require production of further photographs of licensed pilot.

Prescribed fees.

Pilots to display flag when plying for hire.

Power of give directions. Authority to