law: Indian Ports Act, 1908
  6. Power to make part-rules 
  (1) The 2[Government] may, in addition to any rules
  
  which it may make under any other enactment for the time being in force, make
  
  such rules, consistent with this Act, as it thinks necessary for any of the
  
  following purposes, namely :- 
  (a) for regulating the time and hours at and
  
  during which, the speed at which, and the manner and conditions in and on
  
  which, vessels generally or vessels of any class defined in the rules, may
  
  enter, leave or be moved in any port subject to this Act;
  (b) for regulating the berths, stations and
  
  anchorages to be occupied by vessels in any such port;
  (c) for striking the yards and top masts, and
  
  for rigging-in the booms and yards, of vessels in any such port, and for
  
  swinging or taking-in davits, boats and other things projecting from such
  
  vessels;
  (d) for the removal or proper hanging or
  
  placing of anchors, spars and other things being in or attached to vessels in
  
  any such port;
  (e) for regulating vessels whilst taking-in or
  
  discharging passengers, ballast or cargo, or any particular kind of cargo, in
  
  any such port, and the stations to be occupied by vessels whilst so engaged;
   12  [(ee) for regulating the manner in
  
  which oil or water mixed with oil shall be discharged in any such port and for
  
  the disposal of the same;]
   13  [(eee) for regulating the bunkering of
  
  vessels with liquid fuel in any such port and the description of barges, pipe
  
  lines or tank vehicles to be employed in such bunkering;]
  (f) for keeping free passages of such width as
  
  may be deemed necessary within any such port and along or near to the piers,
  
  jetties, landing-places, wharves, quays, docks moorings and other works in or
  
  adjoining to the same, and for marking out the spaces so to be kept free;
  (g) for regulating the anchoring, fastening,
  
  mooring and un-mooring of vessels in any such port;
  (h) for regulating the moving and warping of
  
  all vessels within any such port and the use of warps therein;
  (i) for regulating the use of the mooring
  
  buoys, chains and other moorings in any such port;
  (j) for finding the rates to be paid 14[in
  
  a port other than a major port] for the use of such moorings when belonging to
  
  the 15[Government], or of any boat, hawser or other thing belonging
  
  to the Government];
   16  [(jj) for regulating the use of piers,
  
  jetties, landing places, wharves, quays, warehouses and sheds when belonging to
  
  the Government;
  (jja) for fixing the rates to be paid for the
  
  use of piers, jetties, landing places, wharves, quays, warehouse and sheds of
  
  any port, other than a major port, when belonging to the Government;]
   17  [(k) for licensing and regulation
  
  catamarans plying for hire, and flats and cargo, passenger and other boats
  
  plying, whether for hire or not, and whether regularly or only occasionally, in
  
  or partly within and partly without any such port, and for licensing and
  
  regulating the crews of any such vessels; and for determining the quantity of
  
  cargo or number of passengers or of the crews to be carried by any such vessels
  
  and the conditions under which such vessels shall be compelled to ply for hire
  
  and further for conditions under which any license may be revoked;
  (kk) for providing for the fees payable in
  
  respect of the services specified in clause (k) for any port, other than a
  
  major port;]
  (l) for regulating the use of fires and lights
  
  within any such port;
  (m) for enforcing and regulating the use of
  
  signals or signal-lights by vessels by day or by night in any such port;
  (n) for regulating the number of. the crew
  
  which must be, on board any vessel afloat within the limits of any such port;
  (o) for regulating the employment of persons
  
  engaged in cleaning or painting vessels, or in working in the bilges, boilers
  
  or double bottoms of vessels in any such port;
   18  [(p) 19[***] for the
  
  prevention of danger arising to the public health by the introduction and the spread
  
  of any infectious or contagious disease from vessels arriving at, or being in,
  
  any such and for the prevention of the conveyance of infection or contagion by
  
  means of any vessel sailing from any such port, and in particular and without
  
  prejudice to the generality of this provision, for- 
  (i) the signals to be hoisted and the places
  
  of anchorage to be taken up by such vessels having any case, or suspected case,
  
  of any infectious or contagious disease on board, or arriving at such port from
  
  a port in which, or in the neighborhood of which, there is believed to be, or
  
  to-have been at the time when the vessel left such port, any infectious or
  
  contagious disease;
  (ii) the medical inspection of such vessels
  
  and of persons on board such vessels;
  (iii) the questions to be answered and the
  
  information to be supplied by masters, pilots and other persons on board such
  
  vessels;
  (iv) the detention of such vessels and of
  
  persons on board such vessels;
  (v) the duties to be performed in cases of any
  
  such disease by masters, pilots and other persons on board such vessels;
  (vi) the removal to hospital or other place
  
  approved by the health-officer and the detention therein of any person from any
  
  such vessel who is suffering or suspected to be suffering from any such disease;
  
  
  (vii) the cleansing, ventilation and
  
  disinfection of such vessels or any part thereof and or of any articles therein
  
  likely to retain infection or contagion, and the destruction of rats or other
  
  vermin in such vessels; and
  (viii) the disposal of
  
  the dead on such vessels; and]
  (q) for securing the protection from beat of
  
  the officers and crew of vessels in any such port by requiring the owner or
  
  master of any such. vessel:- 
  (i) to provide curtains and double awnings for
  
  screening from the sun's rays such portions of the deck as are occupied by, or
  
  are situated immediately above, the quarters of the officers and crew,
  (ii) to erect windsails so far as the existing
  
  portholes or apertures in the deck admit of their being used for ventilating
  
  the quarters of the officers and crew;
  (iii) when the deck is made of iron and not
  
  wood-sheathed, to cover with wooden planks or other suitable non-conducting
  
  material such portions of the deck as are situated immediately above the
  
  quarters of the officers and crew;
  (iv) when the quarters used by the crew and
  
  the galley are separated by an iron bulk-head only to furnish a temporary
  
  screen of some suitable non-conducting material between such quarters and the
  
  galley.
   20  [***]
  (2) The power to, make rules under Sub-section (1) 21[***]
  
  is subject to the condition of the rules being made after previous publication:
  
  
  Provided  that nothing in this sub-section shall be
  
  construed to affect the validity of any rule in force immediately before the
  
  commencement of the Indian Ports Act, 1889 (10 of 1889), and continued by
  
  section 2, sub-section (2), of that Act.
   22  [(2A) Every rule made by the State Government under this
  
  Act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made, before the State
  
  Legislature.
  (2B) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act
  
  shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of
  
  Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period of thirty days which.
  
  may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if,
  
  before the expiry of the session, immediately following the session or the
  
  successive Sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in
  
  the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall
  
  thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect. as the
  
  case may be; so, however, that any such modification, or annulment shall be
  
  without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule].
  
  
  (3) If any person disobeys any rule made under clause (p) of
  
  subsection (1), he shall be punishable for every such offence with fine which
  
  may extend to one thousand rupees.
  (4) If a master fails wholly or in part to do any act prescribed
  
  by any rule made under clause (p) of sub-section (1) the health-officer shall
  
  cause such act to be done, and the reasonable expenses incurred in doing such
  
  act shall be recoverable by him from such master.