Section 25 of The Coastal Shipping Act, 2025: General provision for contravention or non-compliance.
The Coastal Shipping Act, 2025
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to regulation of coastal shipping, promote coasting trade and encourage domestic participation therein, to ensure that India is equipped with a coastal fleet, owned and operated by the citizens of India for its national security and commercial needs, and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Whoever contravenes any provision of this Act, or fails to comply with any provision thereof, or of any rule, direction, order or notification made thereunder, for which no punishment or penalty is specially provided in this Act, shall be liable for penalty which may extend to one lakh rupees, and if the breach is a continuing one, with further penalty which may extend to five thousand rupees for every day after the first day during which the breach continues.