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THE PORTS ACT, 1908
(ACT NO. XV OF 1908). |
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An Act to consolidate the Enactments relating to Ports and Port-charges.
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WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate the enactments relating to ports and port-charges; It is hereby enacted as follows:- |
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CONTENTS |
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SECTIONS |
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CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY |
1. Title and extent
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2. Savings
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3. Definitions
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CHAPTER II POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT |
4. Power to extend or withdraw the Act or certain portions thereof
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5. Alteration of limits of port
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5A. Power to determine rates of wages and remuneration and to create welfare funds
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6. Power to make port-rules
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CHAPTER III PORT-OFFICIALS AND THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES |
7. Appointment of Conservator
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8. Power of conservator to give and enforce directions for certain specified purposes
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9. Power to cut warps and ropes
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10. Removal of obstructions within limits of port
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11. Recovery of expenses of removal
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12. Removal of lawful obstructions
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13. Fouling of Government moorings
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14. Raising or removal of wreck impeding navigation within limits of port
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15. Power to board vessels and enter buildings
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16. Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire
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17. Appointment and powers of health-officer
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18. Indemnity of Government against act or default of port-official or pilot
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CHAPTER IV RULES FOR THE SAFETY OF SHIPPING AND THE CONSERVATION OF PORTS |
General Rules |
19. Injuring, buoys, beacons and moorings
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20. Wilfully loosening vessel from moorings
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21. Improperly discharging ballast
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22. Graving vessel within prohibited limits
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23. Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits
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24. Drawing spirits by unprotected artificial light
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25. Warping
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26. Leaving out warp or hawser after sunset
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27. Discharge of fire-arms in port
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28. Penalty on master omitting to take order to extinguish fire
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29. Unauthorised person not to search for lost stores
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30. Removing stones or injuring shores of port prohibited
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Special Rules |
31. Moving of vessels without pilot or permission of harbour-master
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32. Provision of certain vessels with fire-extinguishing apparatus
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CHAPTER V PORT-DUES, FEES AND OTHER CHARGES |
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33. Levy of port-dues
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34. Variation of port-dues by Government
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35. Fees for pilotage and certain other services
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36. Receipt, expenditure, and account of port-charges
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37. Grouping of ports
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38. Receipts for port-charges
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39. Master to report arrival
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40. Conservator may in certain cases ascertain draught and charge expense to master
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41. Ascertainment of tonnage of vessel liable to port-dues
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42. Distraint and sale on refusal to pay port-charges
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43. No port-clearance to be granted until port-charges are paid
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44. Port-charges payable in one port recoverable at any other port
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45. Penalty for evading payment of port-charges
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46. Port-due on vessels in ballast
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47. Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo
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48. Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases
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49. Power to impose hospital port-dues
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50. Application and account of hospital port-dues
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CHAPTER VI HOISTING SIGNALS |
51. Master to hoist number of vessel
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52. Pilot to require master to hoist number
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53. Penalty on pilot disobeying provisions of this Chapter
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CHAPTER VII PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO PENALTIES |
54. Penalty for disobedience to rules and orders of the Government
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55. Offences how triable, and penalties how recovered
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56. Costs of conviction
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57. Ascertainment and recovery of expenses and damages payable under this Act
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58. Cost of distress
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59. Magistrate to determine the amount to be levied in case of dispute
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60. Jurisdiction over offences beyond local limits of jurisdiction
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61. Conviction to be quashed on merits only
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CHAPTER VIII SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS |
62. Hoisting unlawful colours in port
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63. Foreign deserters
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64. Application of sections 10 and 21
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65. Grant of sites for sailors’ institutes
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66. Exercise of powers of conservator by his assistants
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67. Service of written notices of directions
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68. Publication of orders of Government
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68A. Authorities exercising jurisdiction in ports to co-operate in manoeuvres for defence of port
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68B. Duties of the said authorities in an emergency
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69. [Repealed]
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SCHEDULE
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Copyright © 2010,
Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division
Ministry of Law, Justice and
Parliamentary Affairs |
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