Section 13:
Private ferry not to ply within two miles of public ferry without sanction.
1[Except with the
sanction of the Magistrate of the district or of such other officer as the State Government may, from time
to time, appoint in this behalf, by name or in virtue of his office, no person shall establish, maintain or
work a ferry to or from any point within a distance of two miles from the limits of a public ferry]:
Provided that, in the case of any specified public ferry, the State Government may, by notification in
the Official Gazette, reduce or increase the said distance of two miles to such extent as it thinks fit:
Provided also that nothing hereinbefore contained shall prevent persons plying between two places,
one of which is without, and one within, the said limits, when the distance between such two places is not
less than three miles, or apply to boats 2[which do not ply for hire] or which the State Government
expressly exempts from the operation of this section3.
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Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 3 of 1886, s. 2, for the first paragraph (w.e.f. 29-1-1886).
2. Ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f. 29-1-1886).
3. An explanation has been added to section 13 in the C.P. by the Northern India Ferries (C.P. Amendment) Act, 1937 (C.P. 23
of 1937).