Clause 78

The Pilotage Committee shall examine candidates for employment by the Authority as a pilot and on being satisfied as to a candidate’s general fitness and competency, including physical fitness, to act as an Authority pilot may, on behalf of the Authority, issue to him a licence to act as such, and such licence may contain such conditions as the Pilotage Committee may deem fit.

Subject to the provisions of this Part of this Ordinance, every pilot holding, immediately prior to the coming into operation of the said Part, a licence issued under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance (Cap. 207) to act as a pilot in a pilotage district, shall be deemed to be qualified for employment by the Authority as a pilot, and the Pilotage Committee shall, on behalf of the Authority, issue to every such pilot as may be employed by the Authority a licence to act as an Authority pilot in the pilotage district, subject to such conditions as the Pilotage Committee may impose.

Every Authority pilot shall whenever the Pilotage Committee considers that, owing to changed conditions or for any other sufficient reason, the further testing of the knowledge, efficiency or physical fitness of any such pilot is necessary, present himself for further examination, and shall in every such case first deposit with the Pilotage Committee his licence issued by the said Committee on behalf of the Authority to be returned or cancelled by the said Committee on behalf of the Authority as the result of such test or examination determines.

The Authority shall not continue to employ as a pilot any pilot whose licence to act as such is cancelled as the result of any test or examination carried out or held under the provisions of subsection (3) of this section.

Any licence issued under the provisions of this section shall cease to be valid upon the termination of any Authority pilot’s employment with the Authority.