Section 38
If accommodation sufficient, all sea-going vessels compelled to use docks, wharves, etc.
The Major Port Trusts Act, 1963
About this Act
An Act to make provision for the constitution of port authorities for certain major ports in India and to vest the administration, control and management of such ports in such authorities and for matters connected therewith.
When a sufficient number of docks, berths, wharves, quays, stages, jetties or piers have been
provided at any port or port approaches as aforesaid, the Board may, after obtaining the approval of the
Collector of Customs and by notification published in three consecutive issues of the Official Gazette,
direct that no goods or passengers shall be landed or shipped from or upon any sea-going vessel within the port or port approaches otherwise than at such docks, berths, wharves, quays, stages, jetties or piers,
except with the sanction of the Board and in accordance with such conditions as the Board may specify.