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  • PORT-OFFICIALS AND THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES

  • 7
     Appointment of conservator
  • 8
     Power of conservator to give and enforce directions for certain specified purposes
  • 9
     Power to cut warps and ropes
  • 10
     Removal of obstructions within limits of port
  • 11
     Recovery of expenses of removal
  • 12
     Removal of lawful obstructions
  • 13
     Fouling of Government moorings
  • 14
     Raising or removal of wreck impeding navigation within limits of port
  • 15
     Power to board vessels and enter buildings
  • 16
     Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire
  • 17
     Appointment and powers of health-officer
  • 18
     Indemnity of Government against act or default of port -official or pilot

  • General Rules

  • 19
     Injuring buoys, beacons and moorings
  • 20
     Wilfully loosening vessel from moorings
  • 21
     Improperly discharging ballast
  • 22
     Graving vessel within prohibited limits
  • 23
     Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits
  • 24
     Drawing spirits by unprotected artificial light
  • 25
     Warping
  • 26
     Leaving out warp or hawser after sunset
  • 27
     Discharge of fire-arms in port
  • 28
     Penalty on master omitting to take order to extinguish fire
  • 29
     Unauthorised person not to search for lost stores
  • 30
     Removing stones or injuring shores of port prohibited

  • Special Rules

  • 31
     Moving of vessels without pilot or permission of harbour-master
  • 32
     Provision of certain vessels with fire-extinguishing apparatus

  • PORT-DUES, FEESANDOTHERCHARGES

  • 33
     Levy of port-dues
  • 34
     Variation of port-dues by Government
  • 35
     Fees for pilotage and certain other services
  • 36
     Receipt, expenditure and account of port-charges
  • 37
     Grouping of ports
  • 38
     Receipts for port-charges
  • 39
     Master to report arrival
  • 40
     Conservator may in certain cases ascertain draught and charge expense to master
  • 41
     Ascertainment of tonnage of vessel liable to port -dues
  • 42
     Distraint and sale on refusal to pay port-charges
  • 43
     No port-clearance to be granted until port-charges are paid
  • 44
     Port-charges payable in one port recoverable at any other port
  • 45
     Penalty for evading payment of port-charges
  • 46
     Port-due on vessels in ballast
  • 47
     Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo
  • 48
     Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases
  • 49
     Power to impose hospital port-dues
  • 50
     Application and account of hospital port-dues

  • HOISTING SIGNALS

  • 51
     Master to hoist number of vessel
  • 52
     Pilot to require master to hoist number
  • 53
     Penalty on pilot disobeying provisions of this Chapter

  • PROVISIONSWITHRESPECTTO PENALTIES

  • 54
     Penalty for disobedience to rules and orders of the Government
  • 55
     Offences how triable, and penalties how recovered
  • 56
     Costs of conviction
  • 57
     Ascertainment and recovery of expenses and damages payable under this Act
  • 58
     Costs of distress
  • 59
     Magistrate to determine the amount to be levied in case of dispute
  • 60
     Jurisdiction over offences beyond local limits of jurisdiction
  • 61
     Conviction to be quashed oil merits only

  • SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS

  • 62
     Hoisting unlawful colours in port
  • 63
     Foreign deserters
  • 64
     Application of sections 10 and 21
  • 65
     Grant of sites for sailors‟ institutes
  • 66
     Exercise of powers of conservator by his assistants
  • 67
     Service of written notices of directions
  • 68
     Publication of orders of Government
  • 68A
     Authorities exercising jurisdiction in ports to co-operate in manoeuvres for defence of port
  • 68B
     Duties of the said authorities in an emergency
  • 68C
     Application of certain provisions of the Act to aircraft
  • 68D
     Maritime seruity
  • 69
     [Repealed.]