Hong Kong Ordinances

PILOTAGE ORDINANCE - SECT 20

Appeal against a caution, warning, reprimand, downgrading, deferred upgrading, cancellation or suspension of licence under section 18B or 19

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) A licensed pilot-

   (a)  who has been issued a caution, warning, reprimand or whose licence has
        been downgraded, or the upgrading of such licence has been deferred
        under section 18B(3); or

   (b)  whose licence has been cancelled or suspended under section  19 (2),
        may appeal against the caution, warning, reprimand, downgrading,
        deferred upgrading, cancellation or suspension, as the case may be, to
        a judge by lodging a notice in writing with the Registrar of the High
        Court within 14 days after he was notified of the caution, warning,
        reprimand, downgrading, deferred upgrading, cancellation or suspension
        (as the case may be). (Replaced 36 of 1993 s. 10. Amended 25 of 1998
        s. 2)

(2) On an appeal under subsection (1), the judge may confirm, reverse or vary
the decision of the Authority or may make such other order as he thinks fit,
including an order that the case be referred for further consideration by the
board of discipline or board of investigation. (Replaced 36 of 1993 s. 10)

(3) The Chief Justice may make rules regulating the practice and procedure on
any such appeal.

(4) Subject to any rules made under subsection (3), the practice and procedure
on any such appeal shall be such as the judge may determine.