law: Indian Ports Act, 1908
  18. Indemnity of Government against act or default of
  
  port-official or pilot 
  The Government shall not be responsible for any act or default
  
  of any conservator, port-officer or harbor-master, of any port subject to this
  
  Act, or of any deputy or assistant of any of the authorities aforesaid, or of
  
  any person acting under the control or direction of any such authority, deputy
  
  or assistant, or for any act or default of any pilot, or for any damage
  
  sustained by any vessel in consequence of any defect in any of the moorings,
  
  hawsers or other things belonging to the Government which may be used by the
  
  vessel
  Provided  that nothing in this section shall protect 27[the
  
  Government] from a suit a respect of any act done by or under the express order
  
  or sanction of the Government