Section 5
Alteration of limits of ports.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Ports and Port-charges.
(1) The 1[Government] may, 2*** subject to any rights of
private property, alter the limits of any port in which this Act is in force.
3[Explanation.--For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the power coffered on the Government by this sub-section includes the power to alter the limits of any port by uniting with that port any other port or any part of any other port.]
(2) When the 4[Government] alters the limits of a port under sub-section (1), it shall declare or describe, by notification in the Official Gazette, and by such other means, if any, as it thinks fit, the precise extent of such limits.
3[Explanation.--For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the power coffered on the Government by this sub-section includes the power to alter the limits of any port by uniting with that port any other port or any part of any other port.]
(2) When the 4[Government] alters the limits of a port under sub-section (1), it shall declare or describe, by notification in the Official Gazette, and by such other means, if any, as it thinks fit, the precise extent of such limits.
Notes
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Government".
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council and" omitted by Act 6 of 1916, s. 3.
3. Ins. by Act 17 of 1978, s. 2.
4. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Government".
2. The words "with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council and" omitted by Act 6 of 1916, s. 3.
3. Ins. by Act 17 of 1978, s. 2.
4. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Government".