Section 37:
Grouping of ports.
(1) The State Government may direct that for the purposes of the last
foregoing section any number of ports 1[in the State not being major ports] shall be regarded as
constituting a single port, and thereupon all moneys to be credited to the port fund account under
sub-section (4) of that section shall form a common port fund account which shall be available for
the payment of all expenses incurred for the sake of any of the ports:
2* * * * *
(2) Where ports are grouped by or under this Act, the following consequences ensue, namely:--
(a) the State Government, in the exercise of its control over expenditure debitable to the
common port fund account of the group, may, 3*** make rules with respect to the expenditure
of the fund for the sake of the several ports of the group on the objects authorised by this Act
3***; and
(b) by the State Government may exercise its authority under section 34 as regards all the ports in
the group collective by or as regards any of them separately
Notes:
1. Ins., ibid.
2. The proviso omitted, ibid.
3. Certain words omitted, ibid.