5Alteration of limits of ports
(1) The 1[Government] may, 2*** subject to any rights of private property, alter the limits of any port in which this Act is in force.
3[Explanation.--For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the power coffered on the Government by this sub-section includes the power to alter the limits of any port by uniting with that port any other port or any part of any other port.]
(2) When the 4[Government] alters the limits of a port under sub-section (1), it shall declare or describe, by notification in the Official Gazette, and by such other means, if any, as it thinks fit, the precise extent of such limits.
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1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Government".
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council and" omitted by Act 6 of 1916, s. 3.
3. Ins. by Act 17 of 1978, s. 2.
4. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Government".