Chapter IV MISCELLANEOUS

1. (1) Nothing contained in this Act shall apply to 1[survey vessels, training vessels or patrolling vessels] belonging to the Central Government or any State Government or any Public Undertakings.
2. (2) If the State Government is of the opinion that, having regard to the purposes of this Act, it would not be in the public interest to apply all or any of the provisions of this Act, to any class or classes of fishing vessels used for fishing in any specified area or specified areas, it may by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt, subject to such conditions as it may think fit to impose, such class or classes of fishing vessels used or fishing in such specified area or specified areas, and for such period or periods, as it may specify in the notification, from the operation of all or any of the provisions of this Act.

1. (1) No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government or any officer or authority or anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any order or rule made thereunder.
2. (2) No suit or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government or any officer or authority or any damage caused or likely to be caused by anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done in pursuance of this Act or any order or rule made thereunder.

1. (1) The power to made rules under this Act shall be exercisable by the State Government.
2. (2) Without prejudice to any power to make rules contained elsewhere in this Act, the State Government may make rules consistent with this Act to carry out the purposes of this Act.
3. (3) All rules made under this Act shall be subject to the condition of previous publication.
4. (4) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days, which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, and notify such decision in the Official Gazette, the rule shall, from the date of publication of such notification, have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

Nothing in this Act shall apply to fishing and fisheries beyond territorial waters.