The War Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Scheme 1964

PART II QUALIFYING INJURIES SUSTAINED, OR DETENTION SUFFERED, BY REASON OF SERVICE AS A MEMBER OF THE PILOTAGE OR LIGHT VESSEL SERVICE

1.  The cases in which a pilot or apprentice pilot who has sustained a qualifying injury, or suffered detention, is to be treated as having sustained the injury, or suffered the detention, by reason of his service are where the injury, or the capture on which his detention was consequent, as the case may be, occurred—

(a) at any time during a period while he was on a seagoing ship, if during some part of that period he was acting or was due to act as pilot or apprentice pilot;

(b) while he was on board a pilot boat;

(c) while he was at any place, except on land in the British Islands, while proceeding to or returning from a seagoing ship in which he was due to act, or had acted, as pilot or apprentice pilot or to or from a pilot boat.

2.  The cases in which the master or a member of the crew of a pilot boat, lightship, lighthouse tender or lightship tender who has sustained a qualifying injury, or suffered detention, is to be treated as having sustained the injury, or suffered the detention, by reason of his service are where the injury, or the capture on which his detention was consequent, as the case may be, occurred—

(a) while he was in the service of the boat, lightship or tender;

(b) while he was at any place, except on land in the British Islands, in the course of—

(i) proceeding to the boat, lightship or tender for the purpose of being in the service thereof; or

(ii) returning from the boat, lightship or tender after being in the service thereof.