Section 70H
Examination for licence
of Penang Port Commission Act 1955
The Pilotage Committee shall examine candidates for employment by the Commission as pilots and on being satisfied as to a candidate’s general fitness and competency, including physical fitness, to act as a Commission pilot may, on behalf of the
Commission, issue to him a licence to act as such, and the licence may contain such conditions as the Pilotage Committee may deem fit.
(2)
Subject to this Part, every pilot holding, immediately prior to the coming into operation of the said Part, a licence issued under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952, to act as a pilot in a pilotage district, shall be deemed to be qualified for employment by the Commission as a pilot, and the Pilotage Committee shall, on behalf of the Commission, issue to every such pilot as may be employed by the Commission a licence to act as a Commission pilot in the pilotage district, subject to such conditions as the
Pilotage Committee may impose.
(3)
Every Commission pilot shall whenever the Pilotage
Committee considers that, owing to changed conditions or for any other sufficient reason, the further testing of the knowledge, efficiency or physical fitness of any such pilot is necessary present himself for further examination, and shall in every such case first deposit with the Pilotage Committee his licence issued by the said Committee on behalf of the Commission to be returned or cancelled by the said Committee on behalf of the Commission as the result of the test or examination determines.
(4)
The Commission shall not continue to employ as a pilot any pilot whose licence to act as such is cancelled as the result of any test or examination carried out or held under subsection (3).
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(5)
Any licence issued under this section shall cease to be valid upon the termination of any Commission pilot’s employment with the Commission.