Goa Ferries Act, 1990

No: 9 Dated: Sep, 10 1990

Goa Ferries Act, 1990

An act to regulate the use of ferries in the State of Goa.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Goa in the Forty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. Short title, extent and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Goa Ferries Act, 1990.

(2) It extends to the whole of the State of Goa.

(3) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 

2. Definitions.— In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) ‘Captain of Ports’ means the Captain of Ports of the Government;

(b) ‘channel’ means any canal, river, lake, backwaters, creeks or other navigable waterways; 

(c) ‘ferry’ means a place at which goods or passengers or vehicles are conveyed across a channel by means of vessels, and includes also the approaches to and landing places of a ferry;

(d) ‘Government’ means the Government of Goa;

(e) ‘lessee’ means any person who holds right of tolls at public ferry on lease;

(f) ‘notification’ means a notification published in the Official Gazette;

(g) ‘Official Gazette’ means the Official Gazette of the Government;

(h) ‘prescribed’ means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(i) ‘public ferry’ means a ferry which is declared to be a public ferry under the provisions of this Act.