Lawgist48Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases
No port-due shall be chargeable in respect of--
(a) any pleasure yacht, or
(b) any vessel which, having left any port, is compelled to re -enter it by stress of whether or in consequence of having sustained any damage, or
(c) any vessel which, having entered 1[any port 2[in the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Madras and Andhra] or the Port of Gopalpur in the State of Orissa], leaves it within forty-eight hours without discharge or taking in any passengers or cargo.
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1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1950, s. 3 and Second Schedule, for certain words.
2. Subs. by the A.O. (No. 2), 1956, for "in the State of Madras or in the State of Andhra". The words in italics were ins. by the Andhra (Adaptation of Laws on Union Subjects) Order, 1954 (w.e.f. 1-10-1953)
- 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
