law: Indian Ports Act, 1908
  23. Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits
  
   
  If any person boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammer,
  
  turpentine, oil, or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within
  
  any such port, or at any place within its limits where such act is prohibited
  
  by the 2[Government], or contrary to the directions of the
  
  conservator, he and the master of the vessel shall for every such offence be
  
  punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees each.