(1) The Central Government, shall have the following powers relating to the development, maintenance and management of general aids to navigation, namely:—
        (a) establish and maintain aids to navigation;
        (b) add to, alter or remove any aid to navigation;
        (c) alter or vary any aid to navigation;
        (d) authorise to inspect any aid to navigation which may affect the safety of navigation;
        (e) authorise to enter any property, whether public or private, for the purposes of inspection of any aid to navigation;
        (f) transport, or cause to be transported, any goods through any property, whether public or private, for any purpose in connection with—
            (i) the maintenance of an aid to navigation; or
            (ii) the establishment of any aid to navigation;
        (g) acquire any land as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act—
            (i) to exercise its powers; or
            (ii) for the maintenance of works.
    (2) The Central Government shall, for the purposes of exercising its powers under sub-section (1), authorise any of the officers referred to in sub-section (1) of section 4, by general or special order in writing