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Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 23

Title: Act Applicable to Persons in Pilot Service and to Licensed Pilots

State: Central

Year: 1859

The provisions of this Act shall extend to all persons employed in the Hoogly Pilot Service and borne on the rolls of the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta, whether such persons receive fixed salaries, or are remunerated by apportion of the pilot age charged on the vessels piloted by them, or in any other manner, and to all persons licensed to act as pilots at the said Presidency.

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Complete Act

Title: Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859

State: Central

Year: 1859

.....to attend at certain time and place, Examination of witnesses about to leave Calcutta Section14 - Penalty for witnesses not attending or refusing to give evidence Section15 - Arrest Section16 - Verdict of jurors Section17 - Sentence if accused found guilty Section18 - No sentence final till approved by Government Section19 - If verdict of jurors be manifestly contrary to evidence, or trial otherwise insufficient Section20 - Power to make rotes Section21 - Commissioners of Part of Calcutta may pass orders upon charge of breach of duty where trial unnecessary Section22 - Withdrawal of license from licensed pilot Section23 - Act applicable to persons in pilot service and to licensed pilots

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Preamble 1

Title: Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859

State: Central

Year: 1859

CALCUTTA PILOTS ACT, 1859 [Act, No. 12 of 1859] [4th May, 1859] PREAMBLE An Act to make better provision for the trial of plots at the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal for breach of duty. WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law for the trial of persons employed in the Hoogly Pilot Service of the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta], when accused of breach of duty, and to extend the same to persons licensed to act a pilot at the laid Presidency. IT is enacted as follows:

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 2

Title: Trial of Pilots Accused of Breach of Duty

State: Central

Year: 1859

When any person employed in the Hoogly Pilot Service of the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta, or licensed to act, as a pilot at the said Presidency, shall be accused of having committed any breach of duty while engaged in such service or acting under such license, and it shall appear to the Port Officer or to the Central Government that such person ought to be brought to trial for such breach of duty, such person shall be brought to trial upon a charge or charges framed by the said Port Officer, or such other person as the Central Government shall direct, before a Court constituted under the provisions of this Act.

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Section 22

Title: Withdrawal of License from Licensed Pilot

State: Central

Year: 1859

If any person licensed to act as a pilot when duly charged with breach of duty as aforesaid, shall refuse to submit himself to trial under the provisions of this Act, the license if such person shall be withdrawn, and he shall be incapable of being again licensed to act as a pilot at the said Presidency.

Merchant Shipping (Pilot Ladder)rules, 1967 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1967

..... Rule 3 Maintenance and use of pilot ladder and other appliances (1) The pilot ladder and the appliances required to be carried on board under sub-rule (2) of rule 2 (hereinafter in this rule referred to as other appliances) shall be kept in good condition and shall be reserved for the use of officials and other persons, while a ship is arriving at, or leaving, a port and for the embarkation and disembarkation of pilots. (2) Pilot ladder and other appliances shall be used whenever a pilot, harbourmaster or assistant harbour-master embarks or disembarks from a ship. (3) It shall be the duty of the master or other person in charge of a ship to ensure that no ladder other than a pilot ladder is used by a pilot for embarkation or disembarkation. (4) The rigging of the pilot ladder and other appliances and the embarkation and disembarkation of a pilot shall be supervised by the mate or other responsible officer on board the ship. Rule 4 Penalty Whoever commits a breach of any of the provisions of these rules shall be punishable with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees and, if the breach is a continuing one, with further fine which may extend to fifty rupees for every.....

Calcutta Pilots Act, 1859 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1859

.....necessary to effect the arrest; and every such officer or other person shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of the Indian Penal Code, section 186- (3)No person shall be detained under this section for more than forty-eight hours] SECTION 16: VERDICT OF JURORS - Upon the completion of the trial the jurors shall give their verdict upon the charge, or, if there be more than one, upon each separates charge. The verdict shall be according to the opinion of the majority of jurors. If the jurors are equally divided, the Judge shall declare his opinion, and the verdict shall be according to the opinion of the Judge and the jurors with whom he concurs. SECTION 17: SENTENCE IF ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY - If by such verdict the accused person is found guilty of the charge or of any one or more of the charges preferred against him, the Judge of the Court shall sentence him to be dismissed from the said pilot service, or to have his license withdrawn, or shall award such other punishment, by loss of rank12[* *], or by change of a license from a higher to a lower grade, or suspension from employment for a specific period, as to the Judge shall appear fit. Preparation.....

Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 31

Title: Moving of Vessels Without Pilot or Permission of Harbour-master

State: Central

Year: 1908

.....hundred tons" by the Indian Ports (Amendment) Act, 1952 (55 of 1952), S. 3 (9-8-1952). 2. Inserted by the Indian Ports (Amendment) Act, 1925 (36 of 1925), S.2. 3. Substituted for the words 'Governor-General in Council' by A.O., 1937 (1-4-1937). 4. Substituted for the words 'Gazette of India' and Governor-General in Council' by A.O., 1937. 5. Inserted by the Indian Ports (Amendment) Act, 1916 (6 of 1916), section 5(i). 6. The original sub-section (2), (3) and (4) were renumbered as sub-section (3), (4) and (5) respectively, ibid, section 5(ii). 7. Sub-sections (4) and (5) as renumbered by Act 6 of 1916, were omitted by Act 36 of 1925, section 2.

Calcutta Port Pilotage Act, 1948 Section 5

Title: Rules Regulating Pilots

State: Central

Year: 1948

(1) The Commissioners may from time to time make rules- (a) For fixing and regulating the salaries, wages and allowances for pilot age to be received by the Pilots, and (b) For regulating the behavior and conduct of pilots, and may enforce the observance of such rules by the imposition of pecuniary penalties not exceeding two hundred rupees for every breach thereof or by suspension or deprivation of appointment or otherwise, as to them may appear expedient: PROVIDED that any such order made by the Commissioners shall, as respects any officer whose salary amounts to or exceeds one thousand rupees, be subject to the previous sanction of the Central Government. (2) No such rules shall take effect until they are approved by the Central Government and published in the Official Gazette.

Indian Ports Act, 1908 Section 52

Title: Pilot to Require Master to Hoist Number

State: Central

Year: 1908

(1) Every pilot in charge of a vessel shall require the number of the vessel to be duly signalled as provided by the last foregoing section. (2) When, on such requisition from the pilot, the master rescues to hoist the number of a vessel or to adopt such other means of making her name known as may be practicable and usual, the pilot may, on arrival at the first place of safe anchorage, anchor the vessel and refuse to proceed on his course until the requisition has been complied with.