Section 8A Pilotage exemption certificates: suspension and revocationF1

(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.

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Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 8A, 8B inserted (1.10.2013) by Marine Navigation Act 2013 (c. 23), Ss. 3(1), 13; S.S.I. 2013/254, art. 2; S.I. 2013/1489, art. 3; S.S.I. 2013/254, art. 2; S.I. 2013/1489, art. 3