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Pilotage Act 1983

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24Suspension or revocation of a pilot's licence or a pilotage certificate

(1)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.—

(a)that he has been guilty of any offence under this Act, or

(b)that he has been guilty of any breach of any byelaw made by the authority, or

(c)that he has been guilty of any other misconduct affecting his capability as a pilot, or

(d)that he has failed in or neglected his duty as a pilot, or

(e)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.

(2)In any case where pilots are directly represented on a committee of a pilotage authority, that committee may, until a pilotage order is made regulating the relations between the authority and the committee, exercise the powers conferred on a pilotage authority by this section with respect to pilots' licences as though they were the pilotage authority.

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