Pilotage Act, 1913

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Commissioners for the purpose of Part I.

3.—(1) The Board of Trade shall appoint such persons as they think fit to act as Commissioners for the purposes of this Act, but the appointment of any person appointed to be a Commissioner under this section shall not have effect beyond the first day of January nineteen hundred and seventeen, or such date, not being more than five years later, as the Board of Trade, with the approval of the Treasury, may determine.

(2) The Board of Trade may appoint and employ such officers or other persons as they think fit to assist any persons acting as Commissioners in the execution of their duties under this Act.

(3) The salaries and remuneration of any persons acting as Commissioners and of any persons so appointed or employed shall be determined by the Board of Trade with the approval of the Treasury, and any such salaries and remuneration, and all expenses incurred by the Board of Trade in the execution of this Act, shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.