Section 6:
Fees in respect of surveys.
Before a survey is commenced, the owner or master of
the 1[mechanically propelled vessel] to be surveyed shall pay to such officer as the State
Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf--
(a) a fee calculated on the tonnage of the 1[mechanically propelled vessel] according to the rates
mentioned in Schedule I, or according to any other prescribed rates; and
(b) when the survey is to be made in any place of survey other than Calcutta, Madras
2[or Bombay], such additional fee in respect of the expense (if any) of the journey of the
surveyor to the place as the State Government may by such notification direct.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977, s. 5, for "steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1-5-1978).
2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for "Bombay or Rangoon".