Merchant Shipping Act, 1894

Exemption from compulsory pilotage.

578. The Board of Trade may by provisional order exempt the masters and owners of all ships, or of any classes of ships, from being obliged to employ pilots in any pilotage district or in any part of any pilotage district, or from being obliged to pay for pilots when not employing them in any district or in any part of any pilotage district, and annex any terms and conditions to those exemptions.