Commentary on Sections Pilotage Section 4: Pilotage notification
17.Section 4 amends the Pilotage Act 1987 by substituting a new section 15(3) which makes it an offence by the master of a ship not to give a pilotage notification before the ship is navigated in an area for which a pilotage direction is in force. That notification must either request an authorised pilot or notify the authority that the ship will be piloted by a specified person in accordance with a pilotage exemption certificate.