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Port Authorities Act 1963 s 29M

Port Authorities Act 1963 s 29M

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s 29M Pilotage Committee and authority not liable for loss or damage occasioned by pilots

(1) The issue of a licence to a pilot by the Pilotage Committee on behalf of the authority under subsection 29CA(1) or 29H(1) or the authorization given by the authority to any person to pilot vessels passing through a pilotage district pursuant to subsection 29CB (2) shall not impose any liability on the Pilotage Committee for any loss or damage occasioned by any act, omission or default of such pilot. (2) Any authority pilot whilst engaged in any pilotage act shall, notwithstanding that he may be employed at a salary by the authority, be deemed to be the servant only of the master or owner of the vessel under pilotage and the authority shall not be liable for any loss or damage occasioned by any act, omission or default of such pilot. Summary proceedings 29N . A Court may, if it thinks fit, call upon two members of the Pilotage Committee to sit with it as assessors in any proceedings affecting authority pilots under this Act or any regulations made thereunder. By-laws regulating pilotage and conduct of pilots 29O . (1) The authority may, with the approval of the Minister, make by-laws for regulating pilotage in any pilotage district and, for the maintenance of good conduct and discipline of authority pilots and for matter relating to their duties. (2) The authority may, in making any by-laws under this section, provide that any contravention of or failure to comply with any by-law shall be an offence and may prescribe as a penalty in respect of any one offence a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit.

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Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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