Section 59
Examination for and issue of licence to act as pilot
of Bintulu Port Authority Act 1981
The Pilotage Committee shall examine candidates for employment by the Authority as pilots and on being satisfied as to a candidate’s general fitness including physical fitness and competency to act as an Authority pilot may, on behalf of the Authority, issue to him a licence to act as such and the licence may contain such conditions as the Pilotage Committee may impose.
(2)
Subject to this Part, every pilot holding immediately prior to the coming into force of this Part a licence to act as a pilot issued under any written law shall be deemed to be qualified for employment by the Authority as a pilot, and the Pilotage Committee may, on behalf of the Authority, issue to such pilot when employed by the Authority a licence to act as an Authority pilot in a pilotage district, subject to such conditions as the Pilotage Committee may impose.
(3)
Every Authority pilot shall whenever the Pilotage Committee considers that, owing to changed conditions or for any other
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sufficient reason, the further testing of the general fitness including physical fitness and competency of any such pilot is necessary, present himself for further examination, and shall in every such case first deposit with the Pilotage Committee the licence issued by that
Committee on behalf of the Authority to be returned or cancelled by the Committee on behalf of the Authority as the result of such test or examination.
(4)
The Authority shall not continue to employ as a pilot any person whose licence to act as a pilot is cancelled pursuant to subsection (3).
(5)
A licence issued under this section shall cease to be valid upon the termination of the pilot’s employment with the Authority.