Section Text
(1) Within any port subject to this Act1[not being a major port] fees may be charged for pilotage, hauling, mooring, remooring, hooking, measuring and other services rendered to vessels, at such rates as the2[Government] may direct.
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(2) The fees now chargeable for such services shall continue to be chargeable unless and until they are altered in exercise of the power conferred by sub-section (1).
4[(3) The Government may, in special cases, remit the whole or any portion of the fees chargeable under sub-section (1) or sub-section (2).]
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1. Inserted by the Port Laws (Amdt) Act, 1997 w.e.f. 09-01-1997.
2 . Substituted for the words 'Local Government', by A.O., 1937 (1-4-1937).
3 . The original Proviso was omitted 'by the Indian Ports (Amendment) Act, 1916 (6 of 1916), Section 8, and the Proviso, inserted by the Bengal Pilot Service (Centralisation of Administration) Act, 1929 (11 of 1929), Section 3, was omitted by A.O., 1937 (1-4-1937).
4. Added by the Port Trusts and Ports (Amendment) Act, 1951 (35 of 1951), S. 190 (16-7-1951).