{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-navigation-act-2013/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-navigation-act-2013/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/23",
  "legislation_title": "Marine Navigation Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marine-navigation-act-2013",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Pilotage exemption certificates: suspension and revocation",
  "text": "(1) After section 8 of the Pilotage Act 1987 insert—\n“Pilotage exemption certificates: suspension and revocation\n8A (1) A competent harbour authority may by written notice suspend or revoke a person's pilotage exemption certificate in the following cases.\n(2) Case 1 is where an event has occurred as a result of which the authority is no longer satisfied of the matters specified in section 8(1)(a).\n(3) Case 2 is where the authority thinks that the person has provided false information to the authority as to any of those matters.\n(4) Case 3 is where the authority thinks that the person has been guilty of professional misconduct while piloting a ship.\n(5) Case 4 is where—\n(a) pilotage notification was given under section 15(4)(b) in reliance on the person's certificate, and\n(b) in the event, the pilotage was carried out by a person who was neither an authorised pilot nor acting in accordance with a pilotage exemption certificate.\nSection 8A: supplementary\n8B (1) The maximum period for which a pilotage exemption certificate may be suspended is 28 days.\n(2) But if a harbour authority has suspended a person's certificate and is considering whether to revoke it, the authority may by written notice extend the suspension for a single period of up to 28 days.\n(3) A suspended certificate may be revoked (on the same or different grounds).\n(4) Before revoking a person's certificate a harbour authority must—\n(a) give the person written warning, stating the reasons for the proposed revocation, and\n(b) allow the person a reasonable opportunity to make representations.\n(5) A competent harbour authority which has suspended or revoked a certificate may pay compensation to any person who has suffered, or is likely to suffer, loss as a result.”\n(2) In section 8—\n(a) omit subsection (6) (revocation and suspension of certificates), and\n(b) in subsection (7) (notice) omit “or suspending or revoking a certificate held by any person”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.10.2013 for S. by S.S.I. 2013/254, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 1.10.2013 except in relation to S. by S.I. 2013/1489, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/23/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:14.557530+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}