(1)

The [Government] [Substituted by the A.O. 1937 for "Local Government "] may in addition to any rules which it may make under any other enactment for the time being in force, make such rules, consistent with this Act, as it thinks necessary for any of the following purposes, namely:-

(a) for regulating the time and hours at and during which, the speed at which, and the manner and conditions in and on which, vessels generally or vessels of any class defined in the rules, may enter, leave or be moved in any port subject to this Act;

(b) for regulating the berths, stations and anchorages to be occupied by vessels in any such port;

(c) for striking the yards and top masts, and for rigging-in the booms and yards, of vessels in any such port, and for swinging or taking-in davits, boats and other things projecting from such vessels;

(d) for the removal or proper hanging or placing of anchors, spars and other things being in or attached to vessels in any such port;

(e) for regulating vessels whilst taking-in or discharging passengers, ballast or cargo, or any particular kind of cargo, in any such port, and the stations to be occupied by vessels whilst so engaged;

(f) for keeping free passages of such width as may be deemed necessary within any such port, and along or near to the piers, jetties, landing-places, wharves, quays, docks, moorings and other works in or adjoining to the same, and for marking out the spaces so to be kept free;

(g) for regulating the anchoring, fastening, mooring and unmooring of vessels in any such port,

(h) for regulating the moving and warping of all vessels within any such port and the use of warps therein;

(i) for regulating the use of the mooring buoys, chains and other moorings in any such port;

(j) for fixing the rates to be paid for the use of such moorings when belonging to the [Government] [Substituted by the A.O. 1950 for "Crown " which had been Substituted by the A.O. 1937 for "Govt.".] or of any boat, hawser or other thing belonging to the Government;

(j) [ for regulating the use of piers, jetties, landing places, wharves, quays, warehouses and sheds when belonging to the [Government] [Inserted by Act 6 of 1916, Section 4] and for fixing the rates to be paid for the use of the same;]

(k) for licensing and regulating catamarans plying for hire, and flats and cargo, passenger and other boats plying, whether for hire or not, and whether regularly or only occasionally, in or partly within and partly without any such port. [and for licensing and regulating the crews or any such vessels;] [Inserted by Act 6 of 1916, Section 4] and for determining the quantity of cargo or number of passengers [or of the crew] [Inserted by Act 6 of 1916, Section 4] to be carried by any such vessels [and may by such rules provide for the fees payable in respect of any such license, and in the case of [vessels] [Inserted by Act 6 of 1916, Section 4] plying for hire, for the rates of hire to be charged and the conditions under which such vessels shall be compelled to ply for hire, and further for the conditions under which any license may be revoked];

(l) for regulating the use of fires and lights within any such port;

(m) for enforcing and regulating the use of signals or signal.lights by vessels by day or by night in any such port;

(n) for regulating the number of the crew which must be on board any vessel afloat within the limits of any such port;

(o) for regulating the employment of persons engaged in cleaning or painting vessels, or in working in the bilges, boilers or double bottoms of vessels in any such port;

(p) [ The words "subject to the control of the G.G.in C." omitted by the A.O. 1937} for the prevention of danger arising to the public health by the introduction and the spread of any infectious or contagious disease from vessels arriving at, or being in, any such port, and for the prevention of the conveyance of infection or contagion by means of any vessel sailing from any such port, and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of this provision, for- [Substituted by Act 4 of 1911, Section 2, for the original clause.]

(viii) the disposal of the dead on such vessels; and]

(q) for securing the protection from heat of the officers and crew of vessels in any such port by requiring the owner or master of any such vessel-

(i) to provide curtains and double awnings for screening from the sun's rays such portions of the deck as are occupied by, or are situated immediately above, the quarters of the officers and crew,

(ii) to erect windsails so far as the existing portholes or apertures in the deck admit of their being used for ventilating the quarters of the officers and crew;

(iii) when the deck is made of iron and not wood sheathed, to cover with wooden planks or other suitable non-conducting material such portions of the deck as are situated immediately above the quarters of the officers and crew;

(iv) when the quarters used by the crew and the galley are separated by an iron bulk-head only, to furnish a temporary screen of some suitable non conducting material between such quarters and the galley.

(2)

The power to make rules under sub-section(1) [***] [The words "and sub-section (1A)", inserted by Act 15 of 1922, Section 2, omitted by Act 26 of 1938, Section 8.] is subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication:

Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall he construed to affect the validity of any rule in force immediately before the commencement of the Indian Ports Act, 1889, and continued by section 2, sub-section (2), of that Act.

(3)

If any person disobeys any rule made under clause(p) of sub section (1), he shall be punishable for every such offence with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.

(4)

If a master fails wholly or in part to do any act prescribed by any rule made under clause (p) of sub-section (1), the health officer shall cause such act to be done, and the reasonable expenses incurred in doing such act shall be recoverable by him from such master.