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

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(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 free-board, 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 provisions of sub-section
(1) apply. The rules so made shall be published in the [Official Gazette].

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