Pilotage Amendment Act of 1858 No 7a (NSW)

No. IV.

An Act to increase the Bates of Pilotage and to impose certain Harbour Dues and to provide furtlier for tlie Pilot Establishments of New South Wales. [21s ̂July, 1858.] P ilots. _

T T rilEE-EAS the Pilotage Pates as at present levied arc insufficient Preamble.

to maintain the Pilot Establishments of New South Wales and it is expedient to increase the same and to impose certain Harbour Dues and to make otlu'r provisions for regulating the Pilot Establish­ ments of the Colony Be it therefore enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legisla­

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tive Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows ;—

Existing Pilotage 1. The Schedule marked A annexed to the Act of Council

Rates repealed.

seventh Victoria number twelve and so much of the said Act as relates

thereto shall be rejiealed.

New Pilotage Rates

2. There shall be payable and paid at every port at which there shall be a Pilot Establishment a Pilotage Pate upon every vessel except as hereinafter excepted of four-pence per ton on her arriving at and on her departing from such port and one moiety of such rate in any case of her being compelled to return into such port after

per ton.

Minimum rate.

having put ovit to sea Provided that in respect of any such vessel the amount of such rate shall not in any case be less than five pounds for tiic Port of Sydney Newcastle or Moreton Bay nor less than two pounds ten shillings for any other port of the Colony.

Certain vessels liable 3. All steam vessels coasters or other vessels actually trading

menronfy onV̂eUain Colony aud any otlier such port or between

conditions.	any sucli port and any port in any of the Colonies of Victoria South Australia Western Australia Tasmania or New Zealand or in the whaling trade and being registered in this or one of such Colonics or in the United Kingdom shall except in cases where the master thereol’ shall actually require and employ the services of a Pilot be subject to one payment only of the Pilotage Bate of four-pence per ton fixed by this Act for each whole year in respect of any port in this Colony Provided that such payment be made to tlu' Collector of Customs of any such j)ort before the end of March in such year Provided also that every such vessel shall from the time of her approaching within three league's of the shore up to the time of her anchoring in the port keep flying at her mast or main-mast head such distinguishing flag as the Governor shall from time to time for that purpose direct Provided also that the mastew of such trader shall possess and shall shcAV to the Collector of the port if required by him a certifleate of competency as hereinafter mentioned.
New removal dues.	d. In lieu of the Harbour Dues and Charges contained in the Schedule C annexed to the Act of Council third dVilliam the J''ourth number six there shall be paid in respect of every such vessel for the purposes exju’essed in tlu; eighteenth section of tlu; last recited Act the several dues set forth in the Schedule annexed to this Act.
Pilot Board may
grant certificates of	5. The Pilot Board may grant to the master of any vessel men­ tioned in the third section a certificate of competency for any pox’t or ports of the Colony upon being satisfied that such master is so quali­ fied as to be entitled to such certificate and there shall be paid to such Board for CA cry such certificate a fee of five pounds and no more.
competency.
Tonnage of British
vessels.	6. As to every A'essel registered at any port in th(; United Kingdom or any British possession the amount of tonnage specified in the certificate of registry shall for the purposes of this Act bo deemed to be the tonnage of such A'essel.
Provision for dis­	7. In case the tonnage of any vessel entering any port shall not have been registered or any dispute shall arise as to the tonnage thereof the Collector of Customs shall measure such vessel according to the regulations in that behalf contained in the Imperial Act of Parliament seventeenth and eighteenth Victoria chapter one hundred and four.
puted tonnage.
To whom rates &c.'	8. All Bates and Dues authorized by this Act shall be paid to tlu! Collector of Customs and if at any port there shall be no such Collector then the Pilot may demand and receive the same And all such Bates and Dues shall be accounted for and paid to the Colonial Treasurer to be by him paid into the Consolidated Bevenue Eund.
to he paid.
Governor to grant

licenses and make 9. The Governor may grant licenses to persons to act as Pilots

regulations. for any port and may revoke such licenses at his pleasure And every

person

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person who except in some case of urgent necessity shall act as a	■
Pilot without such license or after his license shall have been so revoked sliall for every such ollence h(! liable to a penalty of fifty pounds to he recovered before any two Justices of the Peace.

10. The Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying (iovenioi- may make

into effect all the provisions of this Act And may by such regula- tioiis detormiiK! how any Pilots to he appointed hereunder shall he remunerated and whether by fixed salary or partly by salary and partly by any and wliat proportion of the Hates and Du(,'S authorized l)y tliis Act or whether solely by the rc(;eipt of the whole of such liatcis and Dues or of any and what part or proportion thereof And all such regulations when puhlisluHl in tlie Government Gazette shall have tlie forc(‘ of law.

11. No vessel shall he cleared at any Custom House' until all VcpscU not dearuti

Hates aud Dues authorized by this Act shall have been duly paid respect tlu'reoi' and a certificate shall liavebeen granted to the master thereof by the Collector of Customs or Pilot as the case may he that such payment has het'ii duly made.

12. 'I'his Act shall he styled aud may he cited as the “ Pilotage si'to* title.

Amendment Act of 1858.”

SCH EDULE.

HAR150TJR DUES.

A T a ble of tlie Dues ptiyable to the Harbour Master fur repairing on board and appointing the plaee of anchorage of Sliips or Vessels entering any P ort or Harbour in New South Wales and for each removal of the same from one place of anchorage or mooring to another not being for the purpose of leaving the I’ort Vessels registered in Sydney under .50 tons or while employed in the coasting trade from one P ort of New South Wales to another excepted.

every Vessel £ s. d.

Under 300 Tons , . . .................. ...................... 1 0 0

Of 300 Tons and under 400 Tons ... ..................... 1 5 0

„ 400	do.	500	„	...	.....................	1 10	0
„ 500	do.	GOO	„	...	......................	1 15	0
o 0 0
„ GOO	do.	800 „	...
1) 5 0

„ 800 do. 1,000 „ ... O

Over............ , , , . . . . . . • • • . . . 0 0