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Ports Management Act 2015
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109 Pilotage services provider charges
(1) A pilotage services provider for a pilotage area may, by written
notice published on the pilotage services provider's website, fix the
rates of charges payable to the pilotage services provider for the
provision of pilotage services.
(2) Different charges may be fixed in respect of different classes of
vessels or according to such other factors as a pilotage services
provider thinks fit.
(3) The owner or master of a vessel is liable to pay to a pilotage
services provider the charges for pilotage services provided in
relation to the vessel.
(4) Charges payable under subsection (3) and collected by the pilotage
services provider may be retained by the provider.
(5) This section is subject to any provision made by a pilotage services
contract.