Pilotage (Amendment) Act, 1962

Pilotage dues in respect of certain ships exempted from compulsory pilotage.

2.—(1) Where—

(a) a particular class of ships was subject to compulsory pilotage in a particular pilotage district on the 1st day of January, 1961, and

(b) a bye-law under the Principal Act exempting that class of ships from compulsory pilotage in that district is in force,

the pilotage authority for that district may, by bye-law, require the payment of pilotage dues in respect of any navigating by ships of that class in that district for the purpose of entering, leaving or making use of any port in that district and, while a bye-law under this section is in force in relation to ships of any class, ships of that class shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 49 of the Principal Act, to be ships for which the services of licensed pilots have been obtained.

(2) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 17 of the Principal Act shall apply in relation to bye-laws made under this section in the same way as they apply in relation to bye-laws made under the Principal Act.