Act Number: 33

Act Name: The Calcutta Port (Pilotage) Act, 1948

Year: 1948

Enactment Date: 1948-04-16

Long Title: An Act to provide for the transfer of control over pilotage on the River Hooghly to the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 9: Power to transfer moneys from the general account to pilot age account and vice versa.
    The Commissioners shall have the power, with the previous sanction of the Central Government, to apply 1[any sum out of] the moneys credited to the general account towards meeting deficits, if any, in the pilotage account 2[maintained under section 36 of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 (15 of 1908)] and to transfer the whole or 2[part of the surplus funds, if any, in such pilot age account] to the general account.
Notes:
1. Ins. by s. 195, ibid.
2. Subs. by s. 195, ibid., for "part of the surplus funds in the pilotage account".
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