HC Deb 05 February 1913 vol 47 cc2377-8

A pilotage authority may suspend or revoke any pilot's licence or any pilotage certificate granted by them if it appears to them, after giving the holder thereof an opportunity of being heard, that he has been guilty of any offence under this Act or of any breach of any bye-law made by the authority, or of any other misconduct affecting his capability as a pilot, or that he has become incompetent to act as pilot; and a licence or certificate, if so revoked, shall cease to have effect, and, if so suspended shall cease to have effect for the period for which it is suspended.

Amendment made: At the end of the Clause, insert the words "Provided that in any case where pilots are directly represented on the committee of the pilotage authority, that committee may, until a pilotage order is made, regulate the relations between the authority and the committee, and exercise the powers conferred on the pilotage authority by this section with respect to pilots' licences as though they were the pilotage authority."—[Mr. J. M. Robertson.]