law: The Inland Vessels Act, 2021
  84. Certified master to be deemed pilot under Act 15 of 1908.-
  Subject to the provisions of section 83, every master of any mechanically propelled inland vessel, who possesses a master's certificate granted under this Act and in force, shall, in ports to which section 31 of the Indian Ports Act, 1908 has been extended, be deemed, for the purposes of that section, to be the pilot of the mechanically propelled inland vessel of which he is in-charge.