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Section 92B

Receiving or offering improper rates of pilotage

of Penang Port Commission Act 1955

ActIn forceProvision 131 of 153
Section 92B
(1)

A Commission pilot or a person licensed under subsection 70CA(1) shall not demand or receive, and a master, owner or agent shall not offer or pay to any pilot, any other rate in respect of pilotage services whether greater or less than the rate which is prescribed by law.

*NOTE—Previously “one thousand ringgit”–see Penang Port Commission (Amendment) Act 1993

**NOTE—Previously “one thousand ringgit”–see Penang Port Commission (Amendment) Act 1993

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(2)

Any Commission pilot or a person licensed under subsection 70CA (1), master, owner, or agent who acts in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable of each offence to a fine not exceeding *five hundred ringgit and the licensed of the pilot may be suspended or cancelled.