Bare Act
The Tamil Nadu Maritime Board Act, 1995
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This law establishes a Maritime Board to manage the minor ports in Tamil Nadu, taking over responsibility from the state government. It applies to all minor ports under the Indian Ports Act. The Act gives the Board control over all port assets, liabilities, employees, and collections, transferring these formally from the government. This creates a dedicated authority to handle port development and operations, streamlining port management by consolidating regulatory and operational functions into a single body responsible for the state's minor ports infrastructure and administration.
- 1. Short title, extent, commencement and application
- 19. Transfer of assets and liabilities to Board
- 20. Transfer of service of employees
- 21. Existing rates, etc. to continue until altered by Board
- 22. Repayment of capital with interest
- 23. Procedure when land is required by the Board
- 24. Execution of contracts and agreements
- 25. Power of Board to execute works and provide appliances
- 26. Power of Board to undertake certain works
- 27. Power of Board to order sea going vessels to use docks, wharves, etc.
- 28. Sea going vessels to use docks, wharves, etc.
- 29. Power to exempt vessels not to bring alongside of or to remove from docks, wharves
- 30. Power of Government to exempt from obligation to use docks, etc.
- 31. Board to declare when vessels other than sea going vessels compelled to use dock, wharves, etc.
- 32. Services to be performed by Board or other person
- 33. Responsibility of the Board for loss, etc. of goods
- 34. Accommodation for Customs Officers
- 35. Power to prohibit erection of private wharves
- 36. Compensation
- 37. Scale of rates
- 38. Scale of rates and conditions for use of property
- 39. Rate for combination of services
- 40. Concessional rates
- 41. Prior sanction of Government
- 42. Powers of Government to require cancellation or modification of rates
- 43. Remission of rates
- 44. Refund of overcharge
- 45. Notice of payment for charges short-levied or erroneously refunded
- 46. Time for payment of rates
- 47. Board's lien for rates
- 48. Ship owner's lien for freight and other charges
- 49. Sale of goods after two months if rates or rent are not paid or lien for freight
- 50. Disposal of goods not removed from premises of Board
- 51. Application of sale proceeds
- 52. Distraint or arrest of vessel.
- 53. Grant of port clearance after payment of rates.
- 54. Power to raise loans
- 55. Form of Board securities
- 56. Right of joint or several payees of securities
- 57. Power of one or two or more joint holders to grant receipts
- 58. Endorsement to be made on the security itself
- 59. Person not liable for amount thereof
- 60. Impression of signature on securities
- 61. Issue of duplicate securities
- 62. Power on the issue of converted, etc., securities
- 63. Discharges in certain cases
- 64. Securities for loans taken by Board
- 65. Remedies of Government in respect of loans made to Board
- 66. Power of Board to repay loans to Government before due date
- 67. Establishment of sinking fund
- 68. Investment and management of sinking funds
- 69. Annual examination of sinking funds
- 70. Power of Board to raise loans on short term bills
- 71. Powers of Board to take temporary loans or overdrafts
- 72. Power of Board to borrow money from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or other Foreign Institutions
- 73. General Account of Ports.
- 74. Application of moneys in General Account.
- 75. Power to apply moneys from general account to particular account and vice-versa
- 76. Establishment of reserve fund.
- 77. Prior sanction of Government to power to reserve Board securities for Board's own investments
- 78. Prior sanction of Government to charge expenditure to capital.
- 79. Works requiring sanction of Board or Government.
- 80. Power of Chairman to execute works.
- 81. Power to compound or compromise claims
- 82. Writing off sums
- 83. Applicability of works
- 84. Budget estimates
- 85. Preparation of supplemental estimates
- 86. Reappropriation of estimate
- 87. Adherence to estimate except in emergency
- 88. Accounts and audit
- 89. Submission of audit report
- 90. Board to rectify irregularities pointed out in audit report
- 91. Government to resolve difference between Board and Auditors
- 92. Administration report
- 93. Submission of statements of income and expenditure to Government
- 94. Power of Government to supersede Board
- 95. Power of Government to give directions to Board
- 96. Members, officers and servants to be public servants
- 97. Penalty for contravention of sections 27, 28, 29 and 30
- 98. Penalty for setting up wharves, etc., without permission
- 99. Penalty for evading rates, etc.
- 100. Recovery of value of damage to property of Board
- 101. Person interested in contracts, etc., with Board to be deemed to have committed an offence under section 168 of Indian Penal Code
- 102. Other offences
- 103. Cognizance of offences
- 104. Offences by companies
- 105. Constitution of State Ports Consultative Committee
- 106. Local Advisory Committee
- 107. Limitation of proceedings
- 108. Protection of Act done in good faith
- 109. Power to make rules
- 110. Power to make regulations
- 111. Provisions with respect to regulations made by the Board
- 112. Power of Government to direct regulation to be made
- 113. Power of Government to make first regulations
- 114. Posting of certain regulations etc.
- 115. Saving of right of Central Government and of any municipalities to collect duties and power of Customs authorities
- 116. Application of provisions of Act to air craft
- 117. Power to remove difficulties
- 118. Repeal and saving
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