Indian Ports Act : Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases. Indian Bare Acts :

Indian Ports Act,1908

Act No : 15

Section : Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases.

48. Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases. No port-due shall be chargeable in respect of-- (a) any pleasure-yacht, or (b) any vessel which, having left any port, is compelled to re-enter it by stress of weather or in consequence of having sustained any damage, or (c) any vessel which, having entered 2*[any port 3*[in the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Madras and Andhra] or the port of Gopalpur in the State of Orissa], leaves it within forty-eight hours without discharging or taking in any passengers or cargo.