(1) The criteria for issue to a person of an unrestricted pilot licence, for a stated pilotage area, are that the person:
(a) holds a restricted pilot licence for the pilotage area; and
(b) holds a Certificate of Medical Fitness; and
(c) has, while performing the duties of a pilot holding a restricted pilot licence, completed the required number of transits to the satisfaction of AMSA.
(2) The criteria for issue to a person of an unrestricted pilot licence for the Whitsundays pilotage area are that the person:
(a) holds an unrestricted pilot licence for:
(i) the Inner Route pilotage area; or
(ii) the Hydrographers Passage pilotage area; and
(b) has completed, within the five years before the application, at least two transits in the Whitsundays pilotage area as a trainee pilot or an observer of the piloting of the vessel; and
(c) holds a Certificate of Medical Fitness; and
(d) for a licence in the area permitting anchorage of passenger vessels in cruise ship anchorages:
(i) has proceeded to anchor and weighed anchor at least two times at one or more cruise ship anchorages that are designated anchorages in the Whitsundays pilotage area within the five years before the application; and
(ii) has completed the approved pilotage training course for Whitsunday Anchoring.
(3) In this section:
required number of transits means:
(a) for eligibility to hold an unrestricted pilot licence for the Inner route pilotage area:
(i) six transits of the Inner route pilotage area while holding a restricted licence with a draught limit of 11.5 m for the area; and
(ii) at least one transit mentioned in subparagraph (i) being an assessment transit on a vessel with a draught greater than 11.5 m with a check pilot nominated by AMSA; and
(b) for eligibility to hold an unrestricted pilot licence for the Hydrographers Passage pilotage area:
(i) 20 transits of the area while holding a restricted pilot licence for the area; and
(ii) at least one transit mentioned in subparagraph (i) being a check pilot voyage with a check pilot nominated by AMSA; and
(c) for eligibility to hold an unrestricted pilot licence for the Great North East Channel pilotage area:
(i) six transits of Torres Strait west of Alert Patches while holding a restricted licence for the area permitting piloting of vessels up to 11.5 m draught; and
(ii) at least one transit mentioned in subparagraph (i) being a check pilot voyage on a vessel with a draught greater than 11.5 m with a check pilot nominated by AMSA; and
(iii) two transits of the full extent of Great North East Channel pilotage area.