Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

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Exemption from compulsory pilotage.

605.—(1) The master and owner of any ship passing through any pilotage district in the United Kingdom on a voyage between two places both situate out of that district, shall be exempted from any obligation to employ a pilot in that district or to pay pilotage rates when not employing a pilot within that district.

(2) The exemption under this section shall not apply to ships loading or discharging at any place situate within the district or at any place situate above the district on the same river or its tributaries.

Offences, and suspension and dismissal, of Pilots.