MAJOR PORT TRUSTS ACT, 1963

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S.1 Short title, commencement and application

S.2 Definitions

S.3 Constitution of Board of Trustees

S.4 First Board of Trustees

S.5 Board to be body corporate

S.6 Disqualification for office of Trustee

S.7 Term of office of Trustees

S.8 Vacation of office of Trustees

S.9 Eligibility of Trustee for re-appointment or re-election

S.10 Filling in of vacancies in office of Trustee

S.11 Saving provision for appointment of Trustee by Central Government after prescribed period

S.12 Power of Central Government to extend time for election or appoint Trustees in default of election

S.13 Term of office in case of certain Trustees

S.14 Absence of Chairman and Deputy Chairman

S.14(a) Acting Chairman or Deputy Chairman

S.15 Conditions of service of Chairman and Deputy Chairman

S.16 Meetings of Board

S.17 Committees of Board

S.18 Fees and allowances payable to Trustees

S.19 Restriction of power of Trustees to vote in certain cases

S.20 Defects in appointments or election not to invalidate acts, etc

S.21 Delegation of powers

S.22 Duties of Chairman and Deputy Chairman

S.23 Schedule of Board’s staff

S.24 Power to make appointments

S.25 Power to promote grant leave, etc., to employees of Board

S.26 Consulting Engineer to Board

S.27 Power to create posts

S.28 Power to make regulations

S.29 Transfer of assets and liabilities of Central Government, etc

S.30 Existing rates, etc., to continue until altered by Board

S.31 Repayment of capital with interest

S.32 Procedure when immovable property cannot be acquired by agreement

S.33 Contracts by Board

S.34 Mode of executing contracts on behalf of Board

S.35 Power of Board to execute works and provide appliances

S.35(a) Power with respect to landing places and bathing ghats

S.36 Power of Board to undertake certain works

S.37 Power of Board to order sea-going vessels to use docks, wharves, etc

S.38 If accommodation sufficient, all sea-going vessels compelled to use docks, wharves; etc

S.39 Power to order vessels not to come alongside of, or to be removed from, docks, wharves, etc

S.40 Power of Central Government to exempt from obligation to use docks, wharves, etc

S.41 Board to declare when vessels other than sea-going vessels compelled to use docks, wharves, etc

S.42 Performance of services by Board or other person

S.43 Responsibility of Board for loss, etc., of goods

S.44 Accommodation to be provided for customs officers in wharves, etc., appointed under Customs Act

S.45 Dues at customs wharves, etc

S.46 Power to permit erection of private wharves, etc., within a port subject to conditions

S.47(h) Officers and employees of the Authority

S.47(g) Vacancy, etc., not to invalidate proceedings of the Authority

S.47(f) Authentication of all orders and decisions of the Authority

S.47(e) Meetings

S.47(d) Removal, etc., of Chairperson and Members

S.47 Compensation payable in certain cases where use of any private wharf, etc., rendered unlawful

S.47(c) Disqualification for the office of Chairperson and Member

S.47(b) Term of office, conditions of service, etc., of Chairperson and other Members

S.47(a) Constitution and incorporation of Tariff Authority for Major Ports

S.48 Scales of rates for services performed by Board or other person

S.49 Scale of rates and statement of conditions for use of property belonging to Board

S.49(b) Fixation of port-dues

S.49(a) Fees for pilotage and certain other services

S.50(c) Publication of orders of Authority

S.50 Consolidated rates for combination of services

S.50(b) Port-due on vessels not discharging or taking in cargo

S.50(a) Port-due on vessels in ballast

S.51 Power to levy concessional rates in certain cases

S.52 Prior sanction of Central Government to rates and conditions

S.53 Exemption from, and remission of, rates or charges

S.54 Power of Central Government, to require modification or cancellation of rates

S.55 Refund of overcharges

S.56 Notice of payment of charges short-levied or erroneously refunded

S.57 Authority not to lease rates without sanction

S.58 Time for payment of rates on goods

S.59 Board’s lien for rates

S.60 Ship-owner’s lien for freight and other charges

S.61 Sale of goods after two months if rates or rent are not paid or lien for freight is not discharged

S.62 Disposal of goods not removed from premises of Board within time limit

S.63 Application of sale proceeds

S.64 Recovery of rates and charges by distraint of vessel

S.65 Grant of port-clearance after payment of rates and realisation of damages, etc