States' Trading Supervisory Board - P.2019/93
The States are asked to decide:-
Whether, after consideration of the policy letter entitled "General Pilotage - Retirement Age of General Pilots" (dated 25 July, 2019), they are of the opinion:-
1. To approve the preparation of an amendment to the Pilotage Ordinance, 1967 to remove the requirement that a general pilot retire as such on reaching the age of 65, and to provide that a general pilot's pilotage licence shall continue to be valid for so long as he or she holds a valid Seafarer's Medical Report and Certificate.
2. To direct the preparation of such legislation as may be necessary to give effect to the above decision.
The above Propositions have been submitted to Her Majesty's Procureur for advice on any legal or constitutional implications in accordance with Rule 4(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the States of Deliberation and their Committees.