Section 49. Power to impose hospital port-dues

49. Power to impose hospital port-dues.— (1) The[4] [Central Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, order that there shall be paid in respect of every vessel entering any port subject to this Act, within a reasonable distance of which there is a public hospital or dispensary suitable for the 1. The words "British India" successively amended by the A.O. 1948, the A.O. 1950 and Act 3 of 1951, s. 3 and Schedule to read as above. 2. Ins. by Act 15 of 1997, s. 7 (w.e.f. 9-1-1997).