Act Number: 44

Act Name: The Merchant Shipping Act, 1958

Year: 1958

Enactment Date: 1958-10-30

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 354A: Communication of intelligence regarding dangers to navigation.
    1.[354A. Communication of intelligence regarding dangers to navigation.--(1) Where an authority prescribed under section 354 receives intelligence from any source of any danger to navigation mentioned in that section, that authority shall, as soon as possible, communicate such intelligence to such ships and authorities as he may deem proper.
     (2) The intelligence shall be communicated in such manner and subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed:
     Provided that no fees shall be levied for communicating any intelligence under this section to a ship.]
Notes:
1. Ins. by Act 21 of 1966, s. 32 (w.e.f. 28-5-1966).
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