S.L. 499.26 Art. 12Licence to serve as pilot.

(1) In order to qualify for a licence to serve as a pilot, a trainee pilot shall, not earlier than the fourth month and not later than the sixth month from the date of issue of the trainee licence, satisfy the Authority:

(a) that he has accompanied a licensed pilot on not less than four hundred pilotage operations on board ships, while such ships were entering or leaving the compulsory pilotage ports, of which one hundred must be done during the night and one hundred must be inward bound;

(b) that the trainee has all such moves referred to in paragraph (a) recorded in a special log book kept for this purpose in which shall be recorded the ship, date, nature of move and countersigned by the accompanied pilot. Each log sheet is to be countersigned by the Chief Pilot at the end of the traineeship;

(c) that he has acquired necessary knowledge of the relevant legislation and pilotage practice and operations, particularly in so far as these regulations refer to the report, movement and berthing of ships;

(d) that he has detailed knowledge of the information that should be passed to the Master of the ship as well as detailed knowledge of the information that should be received from such Master.

(2) A trainee pilot who fails to satisfy the provisions prescribed in subregulation (1) may be allowed to undergo further training for a period not exceeding six months.

(3) A trainee pilot who satisfies the requirements prescribed in subregulation (1) shall be issued a licence to serve as a pilot, by the Authority.

(4) A licence issued in terms of subregulation (3) shall be automatically revoked if within fifteen days from its date of issue the pilot has not become a member of the service provider.

(5) The service provider is obliged to accept as a member a pilot as soon as he has obtained his licence.