Section 24
Registrars of Indian 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.
At each of the ports of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, the
principal officer of the Mercantile Marine Department, and at any other port such authority as the
Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint, shall be the registrar of
Indian ships at that port:
1[Provided that subject to such order as the Central Government may issue in this behalf when the office of registrar of Indian ships at any port is vacant or the holder of such office is on leave or is not available, for any reason at the port to exercise and discharge the powers, duties and functions of the office the senior most surveyor at that port may act as and exercise and discharge the powers' duties and functions of the registrar of Indian ships at that port.]
1[Provided that subject to such order as the Central Government may issue in this behalf when the office of registrar of Indian ships at any port is vacant or the holder of such office is on leave or is not available, for any reason at the port to exercise and discharge the powers, duties and functions of the office the senior most surveyor at that port may act as and exercise and discharge the powers' duties and functions of the registrar of Indian ships at that port.]
Notes
1. Proviso ins. by Act 41 of 1984, s. 3 (w.e.f. 15-7-1985).