# Marine Navigation Act 2013, Section 3: Pilotage exemption certificates: suspension and revocation


(1) After section 8 of the Pilotage Act 1987 insert—
“Pilotage exemption certificates: suspension and revocation
8A (1) A competent harbour authority may by written notice suspend or revoke a person's pilotage exemption certificate in the following cases.
(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).
(3) Case 2 is where the authority thinks that the person has provided false information to the authority as to any of those matters.
(4) Case 3 is where the authority thinks that the person has been guilty of professional misconduct while piloting a ship.
(5) Case 4 is where—
(a) pilotage notification was given under section 15(4)(b) in reliance on the person's certificate, and
(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.
Section 8A: supplementary
8B (1) The maximum period for which a pilotage exemption certificate may be suspended is 28 days.
(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.
(3) A suspended certificate may be revoked (on the same or different grounds).
(4) Before revoking a person's certificate a harbour authority must—
(a) give the person written warning, stating the reasons for the proposed revocation, and
(b) allow the person a reasonable opportunity to make representations.
(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.”
(2) In section 8—
(a) omit subsection (6) (revocation and suspension of certificates), and
(b) in subsection (7) (notice) omit “or suspending or revoking a certificate held by any person”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/23/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/marine-navigation-act-2013/section-3
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