(1) The Pilotage Committee shall examine candidates for employment by the Authority as pilots and on being satisfied as to a candidate's general fitness and competency, including physical fitness, to act as an Authority pilot may, on behalf of the Authority, issue to him or her a licence to act as such, and such licence may contain such conditions as the Pilotage Committee may consider fit.
(2) Every Authority pilot shall whenever the Pilotage Committee considers that, owing to changed conditions or for any other sufficient reason, the further testing of the knowledge, efficiency or physical fitness of any such pilot is necessary, present himself or herself for further examination, and shall in every such case first deposit with the Pilotage Committee his or her licence issued by the said Committee on behalf of the Authority to be returned or cancelled by the said Committee on behalf of the Authority as the result of such examination determines.
(3) The Authority shall not continue to employ as an Authority pilot any pilot whose licence to act as such is cancelled as the result of any examination carried out or held under the provisions of subsection (2).
(4) Any licence issued under the provisions of this section shall cease to be valid upon the termination of any Authority pilot's employment with the Authority.