Section 234
Power to exclude drunken passengers from passenger ships.
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958
About this Act
An Act to foster the development and ensure the efficient maintenance of an Indian mercantile marine in a manner best suited to serve the national interests and for that purpose to establish a National Shipping Board to provide for the registration, certification, safety and security of Indian ships and generally to amend and consolidate the law relating to merchant shipping.
The master of any
passenger ship may refuse to receive on board thereof any person who by reason of drunkenness or
otherwise is in such a state, or misconducts himself in such a manner, as to cause annoyance or injury
to passengers on board, and if any such person is on board, may put him on shore at any convenient
place; and a person so refused admittance or put on shore shall not be entitled to the return of any fare
he has paid.