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Power of Board of Trade to give facilities with respect to licences, rates, &c.
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579.—(1) Where the pilotage is not compulsory, and there is no restriction on the power of duly qualified persons to obtain licences as pilots, the Board may by provisional order give any pilotage authority power to license pilots, and to fix pilotage rates for their district or any part of their district for which no such licences or rates for the time being exist, and to raise all or any of the pilotage rates in force in their district or any part of their district; and, where there is also no restriction on the number of pilots, to give additional facilities for the recovery of pilotage rates, and for preventing the employment of unqualified pilots.
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