Section 10 of The Indian Ports Act, 2025: Port operations.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the law relating to ports, promote integrated port development, facilitate ease of doing business and ensure the optimum utilisation of India's coastline; establish and empower State Maritime Boards for effective management of ports other than major ports; establish the Maritime State Development Council for fostering structured growth and development of the port sector; provide for the management of pollution, disaster, emergencies, security, safety, navigation, and data at ports; ensure compliance with India's obligations under international instruments to which it is a party; take measures for the conservation of ports; provide for adjudicatory mechanisms for the redressal of port-related disputes; and address matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
(a) an existing port; or
(b) a new port notified under sub-section (1) of section 11:
Provided that the Government may, by notification, declare a port or part thereof non-operational in the following cases, namely:—
(i) if such port or part thereof has been non-operational for a continuous period of ten years; or
(ii) in the interest of national security; or
(iii) for any other reason, as the Government may deem fit.