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Ports Management Act 2015
92Protection of licensed pilot, pilotage authority and pilotage
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92 Protection of licensed pilot, pilotage authority and pilotage
services provider
(1) Each of the following is not liable for any loss or damage caused or
suffered by a vessel while a licensed pilot is acting as pilot of the
vessel:
(a) the pilot;
(b) the pilotage authority that licensed the pilot;
(c) subject to subsection (2), the pilotage services provider or
other entity by which the pilot was employed or engaged at the
time the pilot was acting as pilot of the vessel.
(2) Subsection (1) does not affect any liability of the pilotage services
provider or other entity for employing or engaging as a pilot a
person who was not qualified or competent to be a pilot.