Repealed or not in force · As amended up to 2026-08
An Act to amend the Indian Ports Act, 1875.
WHEREAS it is enacted by the Indian Ports Act, 1875, section thirty-eight, that no vessel of the burden of two hundred tons or upwards shall be moved in any port to which that section has been specially extended without having a Pilot, Harbour-master, or Assistant of the Master Attendant or Harbour-master on board; and that no vessel of any burden less than two hundred tons and exceeding one hundred tons shall be moved in any such port without having on board a Pilot, Harbour-master, or Assistant of the Master Attendant or Harbour-master, unless authority in writing so to do has been obtained from the Conservator or some officer empowered by him to give such authority;
And whereas it is expedient to exempt Native vessels when moved in the Port of Bombay from the provisions of the recited section;
And whereas it is also expedient to exempt pleasure-yachts throughout British India from the levy of port-dues;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
Source: India Code