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Pilots.

PILOTS.

PILOTS REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 81, sections 4, 8, 14). (Ordinance No. 11 of 1930).

[3rd-October, 1930.]

Every applicant for a pilot's licence must-

(a) be able to speak English;

(b) produce two copies of a photograph of himself, one to be attached to the licence and the other to the counterfoil;

(c) hold a local certificate of competency as master issued under regulation 20 of Table E in the regula-

[CAP. 81

Regulations- Fraser, vol. 3, p. 1090.

G.N.A. 13/50. G.N.A. 93/51.

tions under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899; (10 of 1899).

(d) not be less than 23 years of age;

(e) produce documentary evidence to the satisfaction 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) satisfy the board of examiners that--

(i) he has served at least two years' apprenticeship to a pilot holding a licence under the Pilots Ordinance, or who held a licence under the Pilots (Cap. 81). Ordinance, 1904;

(ii) during his period of apprenticeship he has, under the direction of a pilot holding a licence under the Pilots 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;

(iii) at least twenty different ships were piloted among the eighty occasions referred to in sub- paragraph (ii);

(iv) at least five of the ships referred to in sub- paragraph (iii) were different ships of at least 8,000 tons gross register;

(v) on at least ten of the eighty occasions referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) ships of at least 8,000 tons gross register were piloted:

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(3 of 1904).

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