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(1)Her Majesty may by Order in Council make rules as to the signals to be used or displayed where the services of a pilot are required on any vessel, and those signals are in this Act referred to as " pilot signals ".
(2)If a vessel requires the services of a pilot, the master of that vessel shall use or display the pilot signals.
(3)If without reasonable excuse a master of a vessel uses or displays, or causes or permits any person under his authority to use or display, any of the pilot signals for any other purpose than that of summoning a pilot, or uses or causes or permits any person under his authority to use any other signal for a pilot, he shall be liable on summary conviction in respect of each offence to a fine not exceeding—
(a)in England and Wales and in Scotland, level 2 on the standard scale,
(b)in Northern Ireland, £50.
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