Section List

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 NumberTitleActions
1Title and extent.
2Savings.
3Definitions.
4Power to extend or withdraw the Act or certain portions thereof.
5Alteration of limits of ports.
6Power to make port-rules.
7Appointment of conservator.
8Power of conservator to give and enforce directions for certain specified purposes.
9Power to cut warps and ropes.
10Removal of obstructions within limits of port.
11Recovery of expenses of removal.
12Removal of lawful obstructions.
13Fouling of Government moorings.
14Raising or removal of wreck impeding navigation within limits of port.
15Power to board vessels and enter buildings.
16Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire.
17Appointment and powers of health-officer.
18Indemnity of Government against act or default of port -official or pilot.
19Injuring buoys, beacons and moorings.
20Wilfully loosening vessel from moorings.
21Improperly discharging ballast.
22Graving vessel within prohibited limits.
24Drawing spirits by unprotected artificial light.
25Warping.
26Leaving out warp or hawser after sunset.
27Discharge of fire-arms in port.
28Penalty on master omitting to take order to extinguish fire.
29Unauthorised person not to search for lost stores.
30Removing stones or injuring shores of port prohibited.
31Moving of vessels without pilot or permission of harbour-master.
32Provision of certain vessels with fire-extinguishing apparatus.
33Levy of port-dues.
34Variation of port-dues by Government.
35Fees for pilotage and certain other services.
36Receipt, expenditure and account of port-charges.
37Grouping of ports.
38Receipts for port-charges.
39Master to report arrival.
40Conservator may in certain cases ascertain draught and charge expense to master.
41Ascertainment of tonnage of vessel liable to port -dues.
42Distraint and sale on refusal to pay port-charges.
43No port-clearance to be granted until port-charges are paid.
44Port-charges payable in one port recoverable at any other port.
45Penalty for evading payment of port-charges.
46Port-due on vessels in ballast.
47Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo.
48Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases.
49Power to impose hospital port-dues.
50Application and account of hospital port-dues.
51Master to hoist number of vessel.
52Pilot to require master to hoist number.
53Penalty on pilot disobeying provisions of this Chapter.
54Penalty for disobedience to rules and orders of the Government.
55Offences how triable, and penalties how recovered.
56Costs of conviction.
57Ascertainment and recovery of expenses and damages payable under this Act.
58Costs of distress.
59Magistrate to determine the amount to be levied in case of dispute.
60Jurisdiction over offences beyond local limits of jurisdiction.
61Conviction to be quashed oil merits only.
62Hoisting unlawful colours in port.
63Foreign deserters.
64Application of sections 10 and 21.
65Grant of sites for sailors‟ institutes.
66Exercise of powers of conservator by his assistants.
67Service of written notices of directions.
68Publication of orders of Government.
68BDuties of the said authorities in an emergency.
68CApplication of certain provisions of the Act to aircraft.
68DMaritime seruity.
69[Repealed.].
23Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits.
68AAuthorities exercising jurisdiction in ports to co-operate in manoeuvres for defence of port.
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