Section 48:
Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases.
No port-due shall be chargeable in
respect of--
(a) any pleasure yacht, or
(b) any vessel which, having left any port, is compelled to re -enter it by stress of
whether or in consequence of having sustained any damage, or
(c) any vessel which, having entered 1[any port 2[in the territories which, immediately before the
1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Madras and Andhra] or the Port of Gopalpur in
the State of Orissa], leaves it within forty-eight hours without discharge or taking in any passengers
or cargo.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1950, s. 3 and Second Schedule, for certain words.
2. Subs. by the A.O. (No. 2), 1956, for "in the State of Madras or in the State of Andhra". The words in italics were ins. by the
Andhra (Adaptation of Laws on Union Subjects) Order, 1954 (w.e.f. 1-10-1953)