Pilotage Act 1987

Professional training and experience U.K.

[F1 5. (1) This paragraph applies where a competent harbour authority requires general commercial or professional knowledge and ability from persons applying for authorisation.

(2) The authority shall accept, as sufficient evidence of such knowledge and ability, appropriate experience gained in an EEA State F2 ... by a person applying for authorisation (“the applicant”).

(3) For the purposes of this paragraph, “appropriate experience” means any of the following—

(a) the fact that the applicant has worked in pilotage in either a self employed capacity or as manager of an undertaking, for at least six consecutive years during a period ending not more than ten years before the date on which his application for authorisation is made;

(b) where the applicant proves that he has had at least three years' prior training, the fact that he has worked in pilotage in either a self employed capacity or as manager of an undertaking for at least three consecutive years;

(c) where the applicant proves that he has worked in pilotage in an employed capacity, for at least five years during a period ending not more than ten years before the date on which his application for authorisation is made, the fact that he has worked in pilotage in a self employed capacity for three consecutive years during the same period;

(d) where the applicant proves that he has received at least three years' prior training, the fact that he has worked in pilotage for at least five consecutive years in a managerial capacity, of which at least three years were spent in technical posts with responsibility for one or more departments of the undertaking.

(4) Where an applicant has worked as mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(b) or (d) and has received at least two years', but less than three years', prior training, he is to be treated as falling within the criteria in that sub-paragraph if the time he has spent working and the time during which he has received prior training, when taken together, equal—

(a) in relation to sub-paragraph (3)(b), at least six years; and

(b) in relation to sub-paragraph (3)(d), at least eight years.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. A1 inserted (30.5.2003) by The Pilotage (Recognition of Qualifications and Experience) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1230), regs. 1, 2(5)

F2 Words in Sch. A1 para. 5(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Pilotage and Port Services (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/671), regs. 1(1), 2(b)(i)