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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 3, 1930.

Schiedele.

Examination

of applicant for licence or wal.

Examination of pilots for sight and physical films

Lousing

of pilots

(c) for any other purpose which the Governor in Council may think desirable in connexion with the provision or regulation of a pilotage service.

(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done there- under, he deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.

(3) The regulations in the Schedule shall be in force, as if made under this Ordinance, until rescinded by regulations made under this Ordinance.

5-(1) Every person applying for a licence, and, should the Harbour Master deem it necessary, every person apply- ing for the renewal of a licence, shall, before such licence or renewal is granted, pass such examination as the Harbour Master shall from time to time direct.

(2) The said examination shall be conducted by a Board of Examiners appointed for that purpose by the Governor. (3) All tests which may be required in such examina- tion for sight or physical fitness shall be conducted under the supervision of a medical officer appointed by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who shall report to the Harbour Waster whether in the opinion of such medical officer the sight and physical fitness of the appli- cant in question are such as to justify the grant to him of a pilot's licence.

6. All licensed pilots shall be required to pass an examination for sight and physical fitness whenever the Harbour Master shall deem it necessary and at least once in every five years from the date of the last such examina- tion. Such examination shall be conducted under the supervision of a medical officer appointed by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who shall report to the Harbour Master whether in the opinion of such medical officer the sight and physical fitness of the pilot in ques- tion are such as to justify the renewal of his pilot's licence. No licence shall be valid for any pilot who fails to pass this examination,

7. The grant or renewal of a licence to a pilot by the Harbour Master under the provisions given by this Ordi- mance shall not impose any liability on the Harbour Master Master not to for any loss or damage occasioned by any act or default

by Harbour

involve any

Hability.

2 & 3 Gen. 5.

c. 31, s. 19.

Form of pilot's

licence and production and return of pilot's licence to Barbour Master.

2 & 3 Geo. 5, c 31, s. 20.

Revocation and suspension

of the pilot.

8.-(1) A pilot's licence shall be in the form provided for the time being by the regulations made under this Ordinance.

(2) A licensed pilot shall produce his licence whenever so required by the Harbour Master or any officer of the Harbour Department not below the rank of Boarding Officer, and in case his licence is revoked or suspended shall forthwith deliver up his licence to the Harbour Master.

(8) On the death of a licensed pilot any person into whose hands his licence may come shall forthwith transmit it to the Harbour Master.

9. The Harbour Master may suspend or revoke any pilot's licence if it appears to him, after giving the holder thereof an opportunity of being heard, that such pilot has been guilty of any contravention of this Ordinance or of 23 Geo. 5, any regulation made thereunder, or that he has been guilty of any misconduct affecting his capability as a pilot,

of licences.

c. 31, s. 26.

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