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Indian Ports Act
An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Ports and Port-charges.
| Act Id | 190815 |
| Act Number | 15 |
| Enactment Date | 1908-12-18 |
| Act Year | 1908 |
| Ministry | Ministry of Shipping |
| Enforcement Date | 18-12-1908 |
- PRELIMINARY
- POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT
- PORT-OFFICIALS AND THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES
- 7 Appointment of conservator
- 8 Power of conservator to give and enforce directions for certain specified purposes
- 9 Power to cut warps and ropes
- 10 Removal of obstructions within limits of port
- 11 Recovery of expenses of removal
- 12 Removal of lawful obstructions
- 13 Fouling of Government moorings
- 14 Raising or removal of wreck impeding navigation within limits of port
- 15 Power to board vessels and enter buildings
- 16 Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire
- 17 Appointment and powers of health-officer
- 18 Indemnity of Government against act or default of port -official or pilot
- General Rules
- 19 Injuring buoys, beacons and moorings
- 20 Wilfully loosening vessel from moorings
- 21 Improperly discharging ballast
- 22 Graving vessel within prohibited limits
- 23 Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits
- 24 Drawing spirits by unprotected artificial light
- 25 Warping
- 26 Leaving out warp or hawser after sunset
- 27 Discharge of fire-arms in port
- 28 Penalty on master omitting to take order to extinguish fire
- 29 Unauthorised person not to search for lost stores
- 30 Removing stones or injuring shores of port prohibited
- Special Rules
- PORT-DUES, FEESANDOTHERCHARGES
- 33 Levy of port-dues
- 34 Variation of port-dues by Government
- 35 Fees for pilotage and certain other services
- 36 Receipt, expenditure and account of port-charges
- 37 Grouping of ports
- 38 Receipts for port-charges
- 39 Master to report arrival
- 40 Conservator may in certain cases ascertain draught and charge expense to master
- 41 Ascertainment of tonnage of vessel liable to port -dues
- 42 Distraint and sale on refusal to pay port-charges
- 43 No port-clearance to be granted until port-charges are paid
- 44 Port-charges payable in one port recoverable at any other port
- 45 Penalty for evading payment of port-charges
- 46 Port-due on vessels in ballast
- 47 Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo
- 48 Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases
- 49 Power to impose hospital port-dues
- 50 Application and account of hospital port-dues
- HOISTING SIGNALS
- PROVISIONSWITHRESPECTTO PENALTIES
- 54 Penalty for disobedience to rules and orders of the Government
- 55 Offences how triable, and penalties how recovered
- 56 Costs of conviction
- 57 Ascertainment and recovery of expenses and damages payable under this Act
- 58 Costs of distress
- 59 Magistrate to determine the amount to be levied in case of dispute
- 60 Jurisdiction over offences beyond local limits of jurisdiction
- 61 Conviction to be quashed oil merits only
- SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
- 62 Hoisting unlawful colours in port
- 63 Foreign deserters
- 64 Application of sections 10 and 21
- 65 Grant of sites for sailors‟ institutes
- 66 Exercise of powers of conservator by his assistants
- 67 Service of written notices of directions
- 68 Publication of orders of Government
- 68A Authorities exercising jurisdiction in ports to co-operate in manoeuvres for defence of port
- 68B Duties of the said authorities in an emergency
- 68C Application of certain provisions of the Act to aircraft
- 68D Maritime seruity
- 69 [Repealed.]
