Central Act

Indian Port Act, 1908

This Act was repealed on 1 April 2026 by the Indian Ports Act, 2025 (27 of 2025), s.85(1); it may still apply to matters that began before then.

23. Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits.—If any person boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammer, turpentine, oil, or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within any such port, or at any place within its limits where such act is prohibited by the 1[Government], or contrary to the directions of the conservator, he and the master of the vessel shall for every such offence be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees each.