Section 59:
Penalty for serving, or engaging a person to serve, as master or engineer without certificate.
If any person--
(a) proceeds on any voyage in an inland 1[mechanically propelled vessel] as the
master or engineer of such vessel without being at the time entitled to, and possessed of,
a masters or serangs or an engineers or engine-drivers certificate 3[or a master's or
engine-driver's licence] as the case may be, as required under this Act, or
(b) employs as the master or engineer of an inland 1[mechanically propelled vessel] any
person without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to, and possessed of, such
certificate 2[or licence],he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977, s. 5, for "steam-vesse1" (1-5-1978).
2. Subs. by s. 6, ibid., for section 57.
3. Ins. by Act 6 of 1920, s. 10.