INDIAN PORTS ACT, (GUJARAT AMENDMENT) ACT, 1963
GUJARAT ACT NO. LIV OF 1963.
(First published, after having received the assent of the President in the “Gujarat Government Gazette” on the 5th December, 1963.)
An Act to amend the Indian Ports Act, 1908 in its application to the State of Gujarat.
It is hereby enacted in the Fourteenth year of the Republic of India as follows:—
Short title and commencement.
1. (1) This Act may be called the Indian Ports Act, (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1963.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
XV of 1908.
Insertion of section 50A in XV of 1908.
2. In the Indian Ports Act, 1908, in its application to the State of Gujarat after section 50, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:—
Abolition of separate port fund Account and amendment of certain provisions.
Guj. LIV of 1963.
XXX-VII of 1956. XI of 1960.
“50A. The port fund account and the pilotage account kept or maintained under this Act for each minor port in the State of Gujarat shall, on the commencement of the Indian Ports (Gujarat Amendment) Act, 1963, stand abolished, and the balances to the credit of those accounts at such commencement shall, subject to the provisions of the States Reorganisation Act, 1956, and the Bombay Reorganisation Act, 1960, be credited to the Consolidated Fund of the State; and accordingly, in relation to the said minor ports—
(1) the provisions of section 36 shall apply with the following modifications, that is to say—
(a) in sub-section (1), the words “and, subject to the control of the Government, to expend the receipts on any of the objects authorized by this Act” shall be deleted;
(b) sub-sections (2), (4), (5), (5a), (5b), (5c), and (6) shall be deleted;
(c) for the marginal note, the marginal note “Power of State Government to appoint Officer or body to receive port dues” shall be substituted and
(2) section 37 shall be deleted.”. |
