I hereby promulgate the Law for Partial Amendment to the Marine Pilot Law.
Signed:HIROHITO, Seal of the Emperor
This twenty-second day of the third month of the twenty-fifth year of Showa (March 22, 1950)
Prime Minister YOSHIDA Shigeru
Law for Partial Amendment to the Marine Pilot Law
The Marine Pilot Law (Law No.121 of 1949) shall be partially amended as follows:
Article 4 item (1) shall be amended as follows:
(1) To have served for not less than two years as a master on board a vessel of not less than 1,000 tons gross (excluding vessels used for the smooth water area as their navigation area).
Article 4 item (2) shall be item (3), and the following one item shall be added next to item (1):
(2) To have experienced in business practices, for not less than the period to be fixed by a Ministerial Ordinance, as an apprentice pilot on the pilot district where he intends to become a pilot.
The following one paragraph shall be added to Article 4:
2 The Director of the Maritime Safety Agency may, in case there is no pilot in a pilot district or it is of urgent necessity to appoint a pilot in a pilot district where there is no apprentice pilot meeting the qualification under item (2) of the preceding paragraph, grant a pilot license to a person who possesses the qualifications under item (1) and item (3) of the same paragraph and has navigated in the pilot district concerned not less than the number of times as fixed by a Ministerial Ordinance, even if he does not possess the qualification under item (2) of the same paragraph.
The following one Article shall be added next to Article 8:
(Pilot License for a Former Pilot)
Article 8-(2) The provision of paragraph 2 of the preceding Article shall apply mutatis mutandis to the case where the Director of the Maritime Safety Agency intends to grant a pilot's license to a person who was a pilot before.
In the Annexed Table the following one paragraph shall be added next to the Maizuru Pilot District:
Shimotsu P. D. |
The waters surrounded by a line drawn from Aoishi-hana, Wakayama-ken to Shikanokubi of Chinoshima Island, a line drawn from Shikanokubi to Metori-hana and the coast line. |
Supplementary Provision:
This Law shall come into force as from the day of its promulgation.