Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

PORT AUTHORITIES REGULATIONS 2001 - REG 53

53 .         Applications for variation or deletion of conditions endorsed on pilotage exemption certificates

        (1)         An exempt master may apply to the harbour master for the variation or deletion of a condition endorsed on the exempt master’s pilotage exemption certificate.

        (2)         An application under subregulation (1) is to be in the form approved by the harbour master.

        (3)         If an application under subregulation (1) relates —

            (a)         to the maximum length overall or maximum gross registered tonnage of a vessel that may be moved under the authority of the certificate; or

            (b)         to the condition that the pilotage exemption certificate is not valid during the period from sunset to sunrise,

                the application is also to be accompanied by a written record that complies with subregulation (4).

        (4)         A written record complies with this subregulation if it is verified by the signature of the harbour master and contains the information referred to in regulation 49(4)(a), (b) and (c) for each occasion within 12 months before the date of the application that the applicant has been —

            (a)         the master of a vessel under the control of a pilot; or

            (b)         the first mate of a vessel under the control of a pilot or under the command of an exempt master,

                when the vessel was moved into or out of the port concerned.

        (5)         The harbour master is to consider an application under subregulation (1) and, if applicable, take into account the written record referred to in subregulation (3), and the harbour master may then vary or delete a condition endorsed on a pilotage exemption certificate, or refuse to do so, as the harbour master thinks fit.