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Transfer of pilotage jurisdiction.
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576.—(1) Whenever any pilotage authority residing or having their place of business at one port have or exercise jurisdiction in matters of pilotage in any other port, the Board of Trade may by provisional order—
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(a) transfer so much of the jurisdiction as concerns the last-mentioned port, either to any harbour authority or other body exercising any local jurisdiction in maritime matters at that port, or to any body to be constituted for the purpose by the provisional order, or (where the said pilotage authority is not the Trinity House) to the Trinity House; or
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(b) transfer the whole or any part of the jurisdiction of the said pilotage authority to a new body to be constituted for the purpose of the provisional order, so as to represent the interests of the several ports concerned.
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(2) For the purpose of any transfer under this section, the Board of Trade may by provisional order—
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(a) incorporate the body to whom the transfer is made if it is a new body;
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(b) make the body to whom the transfer is made a pilotage authority, with such powers as may be mentioned in the provisional order;
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(c) determine the limits of the district of the pilotage authority to whom the transfer is made;
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(d) sanction a scale of pilotage rates to be taken by the pilots licensed by that authority;
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(e) determine to what extent and under what conditions any pilots then already licensed by the pilotage authority from whom the transfer is made are to continue to act under the pilotage authority to whom the transfer is made;
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(f) sanction arrangements for the apportionment of any pilotage funds belonging to the pilots licensed by the pilotage authority from whom the transfer is made, between the pilots remaining under the jurisdiction of that authority, and the pilots who are transferred to the jurisdiction of the authority to whom the transfer is made;
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(g) provide for such compensation or superannuation as may be just to officers employed by the pilotage authority from whom the transfer is made, and not continued by the pilotage authority to whom the transfer is made.
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