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The Indian Ports Act 1875, 12 of 1875, (Rep., Act 10 of 1889)

48 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 0Section 0
  2. IV — .
  3. 1No person shall, without the permission of Removing stones, stones, theConservator, remove or carry
  4. VIII — .
  5. 2No conviction, order or judgmeiit of any Magistyate uiidcr this Act shall bc quashed for error of form or procedure, but only on the merits ;
  6. IV — .
  7. 3The Local Government may also, in respect Time, &o., to such port, by order, fix the times and place
  8. 4If any person boil or heat any pitch, tar, Boiling pitch, resin, dammer, turpentine, oil, or other s
  9. 5If any person, by an unprotected artificial Drawing light, draws off spirits on board any vessel wit
  10. VIII — .
  11. 6All offences against this Act shall be triable offetlccs
  12. 11 — .
  13. 8All acts, orders or directions by this Act au- Powers of Conservator thorizod to be done or given by
  14. 18All acts, orders or directions by this Act au- Powers of Conservator thorizod to be done or given by
  15. IV — .
  16. 20No person shall, vithout lawful excuse, lift, injure, loosen, or set adrift any buoy, beacon, or moo
  17. 21Whoever wilfully and without lawful excuse loosens OF removes from her moorings any vessel within an
  18. 22No ballast or rubbish, and no other thing likely to form a bank or shoal, or to be detrimental to na
  19. 23If any person grave, bream, or smoke any Graving,
  20. 24If any person boil or heat any pitch, tar, Boiling pitch, resin, dammer, turpentine, oil, or other s
  21. 25If any person, by an unprotected artificial Drawing light, draws off spirits on board any vessel wit
  22. 26Every Master of a vessel in any port subject ~ ~ a r p i n g . to this Act shall, when required so to do by the
  23. 28The Local Government shall appoint a proper place in which gunpowder in excess of the quantity allow
  24. 30The Master of such vessel shall, upon such gunpowder being deposited, make and sign a declaration in
  25. 32If any vessel be prevented by stress of wea
  26. 33The Local Government may also, in respect Time, &o., to such port, by order, fix the times and place
  27. 35Whoever, without lawful excuse, discharges Guns not t o any gun, musket, or other firearm in any por
  28. 39Every vessel exceeding the burden of two hundred tons and lying in any such port shall he provided
  29. 40No person, unless duly authorized by the person not Unauthorized t o Unauthorized t o t o Conservato
  30. 41No person shall, without the permission of Removing stones, stones, theConservator, remove or carry
  31. 42Every dcclaration, order and rule of a Local Publication Government, made in pursuance of this Act,
  32. 43Salvage payable for wreck, &c
  33. V — .
  34. 45I n each of the ports mentioned in the first
  35. IV — .
  36. 46][loci1 Government may vary port-dues, Proviso
  37. V — .
  38. 47For every port at which port-dues are levied under this Act, a distinct account, to be called the Ac
  39. 49Within twenty-four hours after the arrival Master to within the limits of any port subject to this A
  40. IV — .
  41. 50Conservator may, in cwtain cases, ascerhin draught, and
  42. V — .
  43. 51In order to ascertain the tonnage of any vessel liable to pay port-dues, the follotving rules shall be observed :
  44. 52If the Master of any vcssel, in respect of 011 to pay portwhich m y port-dues or charges are payable
  45. 53The oBcer of Government, wllose duty it is NO portto grant a port-clearance for any vessel, shall not t
  46. IV — .
  47. 54Port-dues, &c., payable in one port, recoverable by (301lector at any other port
  48. V — .
  49. 56Vessels entering any port subject to this Act (other than the ports in British Burma) in ballast and
  50. IV — .
  51. 58Port-dues not chargeable on vessels re-entering horn
  52. V — .
  53. 59The Local Government may, from time to time, Power to by notification in the official Gazette, order
  54. 60Buch hospital port-dues shall be applied, as Applicrrtim the Local GoveTnineht may direct, to the su
  55. IV — .
  56. 61$ees for pilotage, hauling, re-mooring, &c
  57. 64Pilot to require Master to hoist signal
  58. VII — .
  59. 65Any pilot in charge of a vessel who disobeys, Panishmeut or abets within the meaning of the Indian P
  60. VIII — .
  61. 66All offences against this Act shall be triable offetlccs
  62. 68Jq7henever any person is liable, uncler the D;~maqes,kc., provisions of this Act, to pay any sum of
  63. 69Whenever any fine, damages or expenses is or are levied under this Act, by distress and sale, the co
  64. 70Magistrate
  65. 72No conviction, order or judgmeiit of any Magistyate uiidcr this Act shall bc quashed for error of form or procedure, but only on the merits ;
  66. IX — .
  67. 75The provisions contained in sections eleven and twenty-two shall be applicable to all ports heretofo