Maharashtra Maritime Board Act, 1996

Bare Act · 1996

Act number: 15 of 1997
Enacted: 17 January 1997
Contents: 118 sections

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Section 1 – Short title, extent, commencement and application
Section 2 – Definitions
Section 3 – Establishment of Maharashtra Maritime Board
Section 4 – Disqualification of members
Section 5 – Term of office of members
Section 6 – Removal of members of Board (preview)
Section 7 – Eligibility of appointment (preview)
Section 8 – Filling of vacancy (preview)
Section 9 – Absence of Chairman (preview)
Section 10 – Meeting of Board (preview)
Section 11 – Committees of Board (preview)
Section 12 – Fees and allowances payable to members (preview)
Section 13 – Member of Board or Committee not to vote in certain cases (preview)
Section 14 – Defects in appointment not to invalidate acts, etc (preview)
Section 15 – Delegation of powers (preview)
Section 16 – Duties of Chairman, etc (preview)
Section 17 – Chief Executive Officer of Board (preview)
Section 18 – Financial Controller-cum-Chief Accounts Officer, officers and employees of Board (preview)
Section 19 – Power to grant leave, etc., to employees of Board (preview)
Section 20 – Transfer of assets and liabilities of State Government to Board (preview)
Section 21 – Existing rates, etc., to continue until altered by Board (preview)
Section 22 – Repayment of capital with interest (preview)
Section 23 – Procedure when land cannot be acquired by agreement (preview)
Section 24 – Contracts by Board (preview)
Section 25 – Power of Board to execute works and provide appliances (preview)
Section 26 – Power of Board to undertake certain works (preview)
Section 27 – Power of Board to order sea-going vessels to use docks, wharves, etc (preview)
Section 28 – If accommodation sufficient, all sea-going vessels compelled to use docks, wharves, etc (preview)
Section 29 – Power to order vessels not to come along side of, or to be removed from, docks, wharves, etc (preview)
Section 30 – Power of Government to exempt vessels from obligation to use wharves, etc (preview)
Section 31 – Board to declare when vessels, other than sea-going vessels compelled to use dock, wharves, etc (preview)
Section 32 – Performance of services by Board or other person (preview)
Section 33 – Responsibility of Board for loss, etc., of goods (preview)
Section 34 – Accommodation to be provided for officers of Customs in wharves, etc., appointed under Customs Act, 1962 (preview)
Section 35 – Power to permit erection of private wharves, etc., within limits of a port subject to conditions (preview)
Section 36 – Compensation payable in certain cases where use of any private wharf, etc., rendered unlawful (preview)
Section 37 – Scales of rates for services performed by Board or other person (preview)
Section 38 – Scales of rates and statement of conditions for use of property belonging to Board (preview)
Section 39 – Consolidated rates of combination of services (preview)
Section 40 – Power to levy concessional rates in certain cases (preview)
Section 41 – Prior sanction of State Government to rates and conditions (preview)
Section 42 – Power of State Government to require modification or cancellation of rates (preview)
Section 43 – Remission of rates of charges (preview)
Section 44 – Refund of excess charges (preview)
Section 45 – Notice of payment of charges short levied or erroneously refunded (preview)
Section 46 – Time for payment of rates on goods (preview)
Section 47 – Board’s lien for rates (preview)
Section 48 – Ship-owner’s lien for freight and other charges (preview)
Section 49 – Sale of goods after two months, if rates or rent are not paid or lien for freight is not discharged (preview)
Section 50 – Disposal of goods not removed from premises of Board within limit (preview)
Section 51 – Application of sale proceeds (preview)
Section 52 – Recovery of rates and charges by distraint of vessel (preview)
Section 53 – Grant of part clearance after payment of rates, realisation of damages, etc (preview)
Section 54 – Power to raise loans (preview)
Section 55 – Board Securities (preview)
Section 56 – Right of joint or several payees of securities (preview)
Section 57 – Power of two or more joint holders to give receipt (preview)
Section 58 – Endorsement to be made on security itself (preview)
Section 59 – Endorsement of security not liable for amount thereof (preview)
Section 60 – Impression of signature on securities (preview)
Section 61 – Issue of duplicate security (preview)
Section 62 – Conversion of Securities (preview)
Section 63 – Discharge in certain cases (preview)
Section 64 – Security for loans taken by Board (preview)
Section 65 – Remedies of Government in respect of loans made to Board (preview)
Section 66 – Power of Board to repay loans before due date (preview)
Section 67 – Establishment of sinking fund (preview)
Section 68 – Investment and application of sinking fund (preview)
Section 69 – Annual examination of sinking fund (preview)
Section 70 – Powers of Board to raise loans on short term bills (preview)
Section 71 – Power of Board to take temporary loans or overdrafts (preview)
Section 72 – Power of Board to borrow money from International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or other foreign institutions (preview)
Section 73 – General Fund of Board (preview)
Section 74 – Application of moneys in General Fund (preview)
Section 75 – Power to transfer moneys from General Fund to specified account and Vice-Versa (preview)
Section 76 – Establishment of Reserve Funds (preview)
Section 77 – Power to reserve Maritime Board Securities for Board’s own investments (preview)
Section 78 – Prior sanction of Government to charge expenditure to capital (preview)
Section 79 – Works requiring sanction of Board or Government (preview)
Section 80 – Power of Chief Executive Officer as to execution of work (preview)
Section 81 – Power of Board to compound or compromise claims (preview)
Section 82 – Writing-off losses (preview)
Section 83 – Power, etc., of Board as Conservator (preview)
Section 84 – Budget estimates (preview)
Section 85 – Preparation of supplementary estimates (preview)
Section 86 – Reappropriation of amount in estimates (preview)
Section 87 – Adherence to estimate except in emergency (preview)
Section 88 – Accounts and audits (preview)
Section 89 – Publication of audit report (preview)
Section 90 – Board to remedy defects and irregularities pointed out in audit report (preview)
Section 91 – Government to decide difference between Board and Auditors (preview)
Section 92 – Administration report (preview)
Section 93 – Submission of statement of income and expenditure to State Government (preview)
Section 94 – Power of Government to supersede Board (preview)
Section 95 – Power of Government to give directions to Board (preview)
Section 96 – Persons employed under this Act to be public servants for certain purposes (preview)
Section 97 – Penalty for contravention of sections 27, 28, 29 and 30 (preview)
Section 98 – Penalty for settings tip wharves, quay, etc., without permission (preview)
Section 99 – Penalty for evading rates, etc (preview)
Section 100 – Recovery of value of damage to properly of Board (preview)
Section 101 – Other offences (preview)
Section 102 – Cognizance of offences (preview)
Section 103 – Offence by companies (preview)
Section 104 – Local Advisory Committee (preview)
Section 105 – Limitation of proceedings in respect of thing done under this Act (preview)
Section 106 – Protection of act done in good faith (preview)
Section 107 – Power of State Government to make rules (preview)
Section 108 – Power to make regulations (preview)
Section 109 – Provisions with respect to regulations (preview)
Section 110 – Power of Government to direct regulations to be made or to make regulations (preview)
Section 111 – Power of Government to make first regulations (preview)
Section 112 – Posting of certain regulations, etc (preview)
Section 113 – Saving of right of Government and Municipalities to use wharves, etc., for collection of duties and power of Customs Officers (preview)
Section 114 – Application of provisions of this Act to aircraft (preview)
Section 115 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
Section 116 – Deletion of sections 5A of Act No. XV of 1908 (preview)
Section 117 – Repeal and savings (preview)
Section 118 – Repeal of Mah. Ord. XVI of 1996 and saving (preview)

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