Short title and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Indian Ports (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 1962. (2) It shall come into force in the Ratnagiri port and the Vijaydurg port on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint; and in relation to any other port to which the Indian Ports Act, 1908, applies or may hereafter apply, it shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by like notification, appoint.