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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 18

Indemnity of Government Against Act or Default of Post Official or Pilot

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Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 18 is part of Indian Ports Act, 1908 - Indemnity of Government Against Act or Default of Post Official or Pilot. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

The Government shall not be responsible for any act or default of any conservator, post-officer or harbour-master, of any port subject to this Act, or of any deputy or assistant of any of the authorities aforesaid, or of any person acting under the control or direction of any such authority, deputy or assistant, or for any act or default of any pilot, or for any damage sustained by any vessel in consequence of any defect in any of the moorings, hawsers or other thinks belonging to the Government which may be used by the vessel]:

Provided that nothing in this section shall protect the1[Government] from a sit in respect of any act done by or under the express order or sanction of the Government.

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1.Substituted for the words 'the Crown' by A.L.O., 1950.

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What does Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 18 provide?

Section Section 18 of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 (Indemnity of Government Against Act or Default of Post Official or Pilot) is reproduced on this page as part of the Indian Ports Act, 1908. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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