Penalty for conveying passengers etc. in a ferry boat with a submerged load-line or without prescribed free- board.

(1) Any person who shall convey whether for hire or not, on any river, stream, creek, tank, lake or other collection of water affording passage for a vessel any passenger, animal, goods or other thing in any vessel, of which the prescribed load-line is submerged or of which the free-board is less than the prescribed freeboard, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred rupees. (2) The State Government may make rules prescribing the manner in which the load-line or free-board shall be marked upon any vessel to which the pro- visions of sub-section (1) apply. The rules so made shall be published in the Official Gazette.