Calcutta Port (Pilotage) Act, 1948
No: 33 Dated: Apr, 16 1948
THE CALCUTTA PORT (PILOTAGE) ACT, 1948
ACT NO. 33 OF 1948
An Act to provide for the transfer of control over pilotage on the River Hooghly to the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta.
WHEREAS it is expedient to provide for the transfer of control over pilotage on the River Hooghly to the Commissioners for the Port of Calcutta and for other matters incidental thereto, and to make certain consequential amendments in the Calcutta Pilots Act 12 of 1859;
It is hereby enacted as follows:—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Calcutta Port (Pilotage) Act, 1948.
(2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint in this behalf.
2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, —
(a) “Appointed day” means the date on which this Act comes into force;
(b) “Commissioners'' means the Commissioners for the Part of Calcutta incorporated under the Calcutta Port Act, 1890 (Ben, Act 3 of 1890);
(c) “Hooghly area” means the part, of the Hooghly River extending from the Port of Calcutta to the sea to which section 31 of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 ( 15 of 1908), has been extended.
3. Commissioners’ duty to maintain pilots.—As from the appointed day it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to maintain pilots for the safe navigation of vessels in the Hooghly area and the Commissioners shall be bound to maintain a sufficient number of pilots for the purpose as may be prescribed by the Central Government from time to time.
4. Appointment of pilots.—No person shall be appointed to be a pilot by the Commissioners who is not for the time being authorised by the Central Government under the provisions of' the Indian Ports Act, 1908 (15 of 1908), to pilot vessels.
5. Rules regulating Pilots.—(1) The Commissioners may from time to time make rules—
(a) For fixing and regulating the salaries, wages and allowances for pilot age to be received by the Pilots, and
(b) For regulating the behaviour and conduct of pilots,
and may enforce the observance of such rules by the imposition of pecuniary penalties not exceeding two hundred rupees for every breach thereof or by suspension or deprivation of appointment or otherwise, as to them may appear expedient:
Provided that any such order made by the Commissioners shall, as respects any officer whose salary amounts to or exceeds one thousand rupees, be subject to the previous sanction of the Central Government.
(2) No such rules shall take effect until they are approved by the Central Government and published in the Official Gazette.