The Prevention of Interference with Aids to Navigation Ordinance, 1962 (East Pakistan Ordinance)

( Ordinance NO. II OF 1962 )

[ 19th January, 1962 ]
An Ordinance to provide for punishment for interfering with the marks, buoys, lights, etc. installed on the inland waterways in Bangladesh.1♣

 
 
 
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for punishment of persons interfering with the aids to navigation installed on the inland waterways in Bangladesh for safe navigation;
 
 
 
 
NOW, THEREFORE, in pursuance of the Presidential Proclamation of the seventh day of October, 1958, and having received the previous instructions of the President, the Governor is pleased, in exercise of all powers enabling him in that behalf, to make and promulgate the following Ordinance, namely
 
 
 

CONTENTS

SECTIONS

1.Short title, extent and commencement

2.Definitions

3.Penalty for intentionally causing damage and tampering with aids to navigation

4.Report to the District Magistrate regarding repeated damage, etc. and imposition of collective fines

5.Payment of fine realised to Authority

6.Offences under the Ordinance