Preamble1 - INDIAN PORTS ACT, 1908
Chapter I Section1 - Title and extent
Section2 - Savings
Section3 - Definitions
ChapterII - POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT
Section4 - Power to extend or withdraw the Act or certain portions thereof
Section5 - Alteration of limits of ports
Section6 - Power to make port-rules
Chapter III Section7 - Appointment of conservator
Section8 - Power of conservator to give and enforce directions for certain specified purposes
Section9 - Power to cut warps and ropes
Section10 - Removal of obstructions within limits of port
Section11 - Recovery of expenses of removal
Section12 - Removal of lawful obstructions
Section13 - Fouling of Government moorings
Section14 - Raising or removal of wreck impeding navigation within limits of port
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
Chapter IV Section19 - Injuring buoys, beacons and moorings
Section20 - Willfully loosening vessel from moorings
Section21 - Improperly discharging ballast
Section22 - Graving vessel within prohibited limits
Section23 - Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits
Section24 - Drawing spirits by unprotected artificial light
Section25 - Warping
Section26 - Leaving out warp or hawser after sunset
Section27 - Discharge of firearms in port
Section28 - Penalty on master omitting to take order to extinguish fire
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
Section32 - Provision of certain vessels with fire-extinguishing apparatus
Chapter V Section33 - Levy of port-dues
Section34 - Variation of port-dues by Government
Section35 - Fees for pilotage and certain other services
Section36 - Receipt, expenditure and account of port-charges
Section37 - Grouping of ports
Section38 - Receipts for port-charges
Section39 - Master to report arrival
Section40 - Conservator may in certain cases ascertain draught and charge expense to master
Section41 - Ascertainment of tonnage of vessel liable to port-dues
Section42 - Distraint and sale on refusal to pay port-charges
Section43 - No port-clearance to be granted until port charges are paid
Section44 - Port-charges payable in one port recoverable at any other port
Section45 - Penalty for evading payment of port-charges
Section46 - Port-due on vessel in ballast
Section47 - Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo
Section48 - Port-due not to be chargeable in certain case
Section49 - Power to impose hospital port-dues
Section50 - Application and account of hospital port-dues
Chapter VI Section51 - Master to hoist number of vessel
Section52 - Pilot to require master to hoist number
Section53 - Penalty on pilot disobeying provisions of this Chapter
Chapter VII Section54 - Penalty for disobedience to rules and orders of the Government
Section55 - Offences how triable, and penalties how recovered
Section56 - Costs of conviction
Section57 - Ascertainment and recovery of expenses and damages payable under this Act
Section58 - Cost of distress
Section59 - Magistrate to determine the amount to be levied in case of dispute
Section60 - Jurisdiction over offences beyond local limits of jurisdiction
Section61 - Conviction to be quashed on merits only
Chapter VIII Section62 - Hoisting unlawful colours in port
Section63 - Foreign deserters
Section64 - Application of sections 16 and 21
Section65 - Grant of sites for sailors Institutes
Section66 - Exercise of powers of conservator by his assistants
Section67 - Service of written notices of directions
Section68 - Publication of orders of Government
Section68A - Authorities exercising jurisdiction in ports to co-operate in manoeuvres for defence of port
Section68B - Duties of the said authorities in an emergency
Section68C - Application of certain provisions of the Act to aircraft
Section68D - Maritime security
Section69 - Repeal
ScheduleI - FIRST SCHEDULE