Section 48:
Scales of rates for services performed by Board or other person.
(1) 1[The Authority shall
from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame a scale of rates at which, and a statement
of conditions under which, any of the services specified hereunder shall be performed by a Board or any
other person authorised under section 42 at or in relation to the port or port approaches--]
(a) transhipping of passengers or goods between vessels in the port or port approaches;
(b) landing and shipping of passengers or goods from or to such vessels to or from any wharf,
quay, jetty, pier, dock, berth, mooring, stage or erection, land or building in the possession or
occupation of the Board or at any place within the limits of the port or port approaches;
(c) cranage or porterage of goods on any such place;
(d) wharfage, storage or demurrage of goods on any such place;
(e) any other service in respect of vessels, passengers or goods 2***.
(2) Different scales and conditions may be framed for different classes of goods and vessels.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 15 of 1997, s. 15, for the opening portion (w.e.f. 9-1-1997).
2. The words "excepting the services in respect of vessels for which fees are chargeable under the Indian Ports Act" omitted
by s.15, ibid. (w.e.f. 9-1-1997).