State Act
14B
Section 14B. Penalty for conveying passengers etc. in a ferry boat with a submerged load-line or without prescribed free-board.
The Gujarat Ferries and Inland Vessels Act, 1868
Act no. 2 of 18681868In forceGujarat (State Act)
21[14B. (1) Any person who shall convey 22[whether for hire or not, on any river, stream, creek, tank, lake or other collection of water affording passage for & vessel any passenger, animal, goods or other thing in any vessel,] of which the prescribed load-line is submerged or of which the free-board is less than the prescribed freeboard, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred rupees. (2) The State Government may make rules prescribing the manner in which the load-line or free-board shall be marked upon any 23[vessel] to which the pro- visions of sub-section (1) apply. The rules so made shall be published in the Official Gazette.