PILOTAGE (DUES) ORDER

PILOTAGE (DUES) ORDER

PILOTAGE (DUES) ORDER
(Cap. 84, section 22)

[20 October 1972.]

1. This order may be cited as the Pilotage (Dues) Order.

2. The pilotage dues shall be those specified in the Schedule.

3. (1) A licensed pilot who is carried without his consent beyond
Hong Kong or beyond the point outside Hong Kong to which he was
engaged to pilot a ship shall be maintained while he is on the ship in the
same way as an officer of the ship and shall be paid, in addition to the
pilotage dues

(a)reasonable travelling expenses (including, if necessary, first
class air fares) to enable him to return to Hong Kong if he
leaves the ship outside Hong Kong; and

(b) an additional fee of $1,000 per day.

(2) The additional fee specified in paragraph 3(1)(b) shall be
payable for the day on which the ship leaves Hong Kong or passes
beyond the point outside Hong Kong to which the licensed pilot was
engaged to pilot the ship and for each day until, and inclusive of, the
day on which the ship returns to Hong Kong, or, if the licensed pilot
leaves the ship outside Hong Kong, for each day which is reasonably
required for him to return to Hong Kong inclusive of the day of return.

SCHEDULE [para. 2.]

PART I

STANDARD PILOTAGE DUES FOR PILOTAGE OF SHIPS INTO AND OUT
OF THE HARBOUR, WITHIN HARBOUR LIMITS AND
OUTSIDE HARBOUR LIMITS


1.A minimum due of $1,440 for every ship piloted, and in addition a
pilotage due of 6 cents per ton of the gross registered tonnage of that ship.

Notes: (a)The pilotage dues specified in this Part include all costs incurred
by a pilot in travelling to and from a ship.

(b)Pilotage dues for pilotage into the harbour include anchoring in
the quarantine anchorage and moving a ship from such anchorage
to a buoy, wharf or other anchorage.

(c)The pilotage dues payable by warships under this Part shall be
calculated on the basis of displacement tonnage instead of gross
registered tonnage.





PART II

ADDITIONAL PILOTAGE DUES

1.An additional pilotage due of 51,000 per hour or part thereof (after the
first hour) shall be payable for any pilotage service performed in the
movement of oil rigs.

2.An additional pilotage due equal to 100% overall of the standard pilotage
dues shall be payable for any pilotage service performed in the movement
of dead ships as defined in the Shipping and Port Control Ordinance.

3.An additional pilotage due equal to 100% overall of the standard pilotage
dues shall be payable for any pilotage service if the whole or any part
thereof is performed while a local storm signal higher than No. 1 is
hoisted.

4.An additional pilotage due of $375 per half an hour or part thereof shall
be payable for any pilotage service performed, where a pilot is required to
proceed outwards beyond the pilot boarding area for the purpose of engine
trials, direction finder calibrations and compass adjustment, from the time
the ship passes the pilot boarding area outwards until the ship passes the
pilot boarding area inwards.

5.An additional pilotage due of $1,500 shall be payable for any pilotage
service performed, where a pilot is required to board a ship off Ngan Chau
inwards or to disembark from a ship off Ngan Chau outwards.

6.Where a pilot is detained there shall be payable for such detention an
additional pilotage due of 5200 per half an hour or part thereof for the
first hour, $400 for the second hour or part thereof, $600 for the third
hour or part thereof and $800 per hour or part thereof for any further
period of detention.

7.An additional pilotage due equal to 50% overall of the standard pilotage
dues shall be payable for any pilotage service which is provided on notice
of less than 3 hours.

PART III

DUES PAYABLE WHERE ENGAGEMENT IS
CANCELLED OR ALTERED

1.If the engagement of a pilot is cancelled within 3 hours of the last stated
time of requirement, a pilotage due of $300 shall be payable.

2.If the engagement of a pilot is altered within 3 hours of the last stated
time of requirement, an additional pilotage due of 5300 shall be payable.

3.If the engagement of a pilot is altered more than twice then an additional
pilotage due of $300 shall be payable for the third and each subsequent
alteration.
L.N. 217/72. L.N. 80/73. L.N. 227/73. L.N. 240/73. L.N. 5/74. L.N. 218/74. L.N. 201/76. L.N. 203/76. L.N. 215/78. L.N. 192/80. L.N. 39/82. L.N. 433/82. L.N. 409/83. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 104/85. L.N. 257/87. Citation. Pilotage dues. Schedule. Fees and maintenance of pilot carried out of Hong Kong. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 104/85. L.N. 257/87. (Cap. 313.)

L.N. 217/72. L.N. 80/73. L.N. 227/73. L.N. 240/73. L.N. 5/74. L.N. 218/74. L.N. 201/76. L.N. 203/76. L.N. 215/78. L.N. 192/80. L.N. 39/82. L.N. 433/82. L.N. 409/83. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 104/85. L.N. 257/87. Citation. Pilotage dues. Schedule. Fees and maintenance of pilot carried out of Hong Kong. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 432/84. L.N. 104/85. L.N. 257/87. (Cap. 313.)

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