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Home trade passenger ships to carry pilots.
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604.—(1) The master of every ship carrying passengers between any place in the British Islands and any other place so situate, shall, while navigating within the limits of any district for which pilots are licensed under this or any other Act, employ a qualified pilot, unless he or the mate of his ship holds a pilotage certificate or a certificate granted under this section applying to the district, and, if he fails to do so, shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
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(2) The Board of Trade on the application of the master or mate of any such ship as aforesaid, and on being satisfied, by examination or otherwise, as the Board may deem expedient, of the competency of that master or mate, may [2]
grant him a certificate authorising him to pilot any ship or ships belonging to the same owner and not being of greater draught of water than that stated in the certificate within the limits aforesaid, and any master or mate to whom the certificate is granted shall be entitled to conduct any such ship as is specified in the certificate within the limits specified in the certificate.
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(4) A master or mate shall on the application for a certificate under this section, or for a renewal thereof, pay to the Board of Trade, or as the Board directs, such fees not exceeding those payable under the Second Part of this Act on an examination for a master’s certificate of competency as the Board of Trade may direct, and those fees shall be applied as the fees payable on that examination.
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