law: Indian Ports Act, 1908
  16. Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire 
  (1) For the purpose of preventing or extinguishing fire in any
  
  port subject to this Act, the conservator or port-officer may require the
  
  master of any vessel within the port to place at his disposal such number as he
  
  requires, not exceeding three-fourths, of the crew then under the orders of
  
  such master.
  (2) Any master refusing or neglecting to comply with such
  
  requisition shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred
  
  rupees, and any seaman then under his orders who, after being directed by the master
  
  to obey the orders of the conservator or port-officer for the purpose
  
  aforesaid, refuses to obey such orders, shall be punishable with fine which may
  
  extend to twenty-five rupees.