Act Number: 15

Act Name: The Indian Ports Act, 1908

Year: 1908

Enactment Date: 1908-12-18

Long Title: An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to Ports and Port-charges.

Ministry: Ministry of Shipping

Department:

Section 23: Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits.
    If any person boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammer, turpentine, oil, or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within any such port, or at any place within its limits where such act is prohibited by the 1[Government], or contrary to the directions of the conservator, he and the master of the vessel shall for every such offence be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees each.
Notes:
1. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Local Government".
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