law: Indian Ports Act, 1908
  37. Grouping of ports 
  (1) The State Government may direct that for the purposes of the
  
  lass foregoing section any number of ports 52[in the State not being
  
  major ports] shall be regarded as constituting a single port, and thereupon all
  
  moneys to be credited to the port fund account under sub-section (4) of that
  
  section shall farm a common port fund account which shall be available for the
  
  payment of all expenses incurred for the sake of any of the ports:
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  (2) Where ports are grouped by or under this Act, the following
  
  consequences ensue, namely
  (a) the State Government, in the exercise of
  
  its control over expenditure debitable to the common port fund account of the
  
  group, may, 54[***] make rules with respect of the expenditure of
  
  the fund for the sake of the several ports of the group on the objects
  
  authorized by this Act 54[***]; and
  (b) the State Government may exercise its
  
  authority under section 34 as regards all the ports in, the group collectively
  
  or as regards any of them separately.