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Preamble1 - Ports Act, 1908
Section1 - Title and extent
Section2 - Savings Nothing in this Act shall
Section3 - Definitions in this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,
Section4 - Power to extend or withdraw the Act or certain portions thereof
Section5 - Alteration of limits of ports STATE AMENDMENT Maharashtra In its application to the State of Maharashtra ,S. 5A
Section6 - Power to make port-rules STATE AMENDMENT Gujarat: In its application to ports other than major ports in the State of
Chapter3 - : PORT-OFFICIALS AND THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES
Section7 - Appointment of conservator STATE AMENDMENT Maharashtra: In its application to the State Maharashtra in section 7,
Section8 - Power of conservator to give and enforce directions for certain specified purposes
Section9 - Power to cut warps and ropes The conservator of any such port may, in case of urgent necessity, cut, or cause to be
Section10 - Removal of obstructions within limits of port
Section11 - Recovery of expenses of removal If the owner of any such timber, raft or other thing. or the person who has caused any
Section12 - Removal of lawful obstructions
Section13 - Fouling of Government moorings
Section14 - Raising or removal of wreck impeding navigation within limits of port 3
Section15 - Power to board vessels and enter buildings
Section16 - Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire
Section17 - Appointment and powers of health-officer
Section18 - Indemnity of Government against act or default of post official or pilot The Government shall not be responsible for
Chapter4 - : RULES FOR THE SAFETY OF SHIPPING AND THE CONSERVATION OF PORTS
Section19 - Injuring buoys, beacons and moorings
Section20 - Wilfully loosening vessel from moorings If any person wilfully and without lawful excuse loosens or removes from her
Section21 - Improperly discharging ballast
Section22 - Graving vessel within prohibited limits If any person graves, breams or smokes any vessel in any such port, contrary to
Section23 - Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits If any person boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammer,
Section24 - Drawing spirits by unprotected artificial light If any person, by an unprotected artificial light, draws off spirits on
Section25 - Warping
Section26 - Leaving out warp or hawser after sunset
Section27 - Discharge of firearms in port It any person, .without lawful excuse, discharges any firearms in any port subject to
Section28 - Penalty on master omitting to take order to extinguish fire If the master of any vessel in which fire lakes place while
Section29 - Unauthorised person not to search for lost stores
Section30 - Removing stones or injuring shores of port prohibited
Section31 - Moving of vessels without pilot or permission of harbour-master 3
Section32 - Provision of certain vessels with fire-extinguishing apparatus 3
Chapter5 - : PORT-DUES, FEES AND OTHER CHARGES
Section33 - Levy of port-dues
Section34 - Variation of port-dues by Government The 3
Section35 - Fees for pilotage and certain other services
Section36 - Receipt, expenditure and account of port-charges STATE AMENDMENTS Andhra Pradesh: In Section 36,
Section37 - Grouping of ports STATE AMENDMENTS Andhra Pradesh
Section38 - Receipts for port-charges The person to whom any dues, fees or other charges authorized to be taken by or under this
Section39 - Master to report arrival
Section40 - Conservator may in certain cases ascertain draught and charge expense to master If any vessel liable to the payment of
Section41 - Ascertainment of tonnage of vessel liable to port-dues In order to ascertain the tonnage of any vessel liable to pay
Section42 - Distraint and sale on refusal to pay port-charges If the master of any vessel in respect of which any port-dues, fees
Section43 - No port-clearance to be granted until port charges are paid The officer of the 3
Section44 - Port-charges payable in one port recoverable at any other port
Section45 - Penalty for evading payment of port-charges
Section46 - Port-due on vessels in ballast A vessel entering any port subject to this Act 3
Section47 - Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo When a vessel enters a port subject to this Act. but does not
Section48 - Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases No port-due shall be chargeable in respect of
Section49 - Power to impose hospital port-dues STATE AMENDMENTS Andhra Pradesh: In its application to the State ofAndhra Pradesh,
Section50 - Application and account of hospital port-dues STATE AMENDMENTS Andhra Pradesh: In S. 50, sub-section
Chapter6 - : HOISTING SIGNALS
Section51 - Master to hoist number of vessel
Section52 - Pilot to require master to hoist number
Section53 - Penalty on pilot disobeying provisions of this Chapter Any pilot in charge of a vessel who disobeys, or abets
Chapter7 - : PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO PENALTIES
Section54 - Penalty for disobedience to rules and orders of the Government If any person disobeys any rule or order which a 3
Section55 - Offences how triable, and penalties how recovered All offences against this Act shall be triable by a Magistrate and
Section56 - Costs of conviction
Section57 - Ascertainment and recovery of expenses and damages payable under this Act
Section58 - Cost of distress Whenever any fine, expenses or damages is or are levied under this Act, by distress and sale, the cost
Section59 - Magistrate to determine the amount to be levied in case of dispute If any dispute arises concerning the amount leviable
Section60 - Jurisdiction overoffences beyond local limits of jurisdiction
Section61 - Conviction to be quashed on merits only
Chapter8 - : SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS
Section62 - Hoisting unlawful colours in port
Section63 - Foreign deserters Any Magistrate, upon an application being made to him by the Consul of any foreign Power to which
Section64 - Application of sections 16 and 21
Section65 - Grant of sites for sailors Institutes Any local authority in which any immovable property in or near a port is vested
Section66 - Exercise of powers of conservator by his assistants
Section67 - Service of written notices of directions Any written notice of a direction given under this Act. left for the master of
Section68 - Publication of orders of Government Every declaration, order and rule of a 3
Section68A - Authorities exercising jurisdiction in ports to co-operate in manoeuvres for defenceof port 3
Section68B - Duties of the said authorities in an emergency 3
Section68C - Application of certain provisions of the Act to aircraft 3
Section69 - Repeal [Repeated by the Repealing Act, 1938
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