Merchant Shipping Act 1894

628 Receipt and application of pilotage dues payable by foreign ships.

(1) Subject to any alteration to be made by the Trinity House, the chief officer of customs shall, on receiving any pilotage dues in respect of foreign ships, give to the person paying the same a receipt in writing; and in the port of London the ship may be detained until the receipt is produced to the proper officer of customs at that port.

(2) Subject to any alteration to be made by the Trinity House, the chief officer of customs shall pay over to the Trinity House the pilotage dues received by him in respect of any foreign ship; and the Trinity House shall apply the same—

(a) in the first place, in paying to any pilot who may bring sufficient proof of his having had the charge of the ship such dues as would have been payable to him for the pilotage service if the ship had been a British ship, after deducting therefrom the poundage due to the Trinity House; and

(b) in the second place, in paying to any unlicensed person who may bring sufficient proof of his having, in the absence of a licensed pilot, had the charge of the ship, such amount as the Trinity House may think proper, not exceeding the amount which would under similar circumstances have been payable to a licensed pilot, after deducting poundage; and

(c) lastly, in paying over to the Trinity House Pilot Fund the residue together with all poundage deducted as aforesaid.