Section 3: Power to declare, establish, define limits or routes and discontinue public ferries
The Goa Ferries Act, 1990State Act of Goa · Act 9 of 1990
The Government may by notification, from time to time,—
(a) declare as to which ferry shall be public ferry, and the respective districts in which for the purposes of this Act it shall be deemed to be situated;
(b) establish new public ferries where, in its opinion, they are needed;
(c) define the limits of any public ferry;
(d) define or alter the routes of navigation at any public ferry; and
(e) discontinue any public ferry which it deems unnecessary:
Provided that when a channel lies between the State and the other State, the powers conferred by this section shall, in respect of such channel, be exercised by the Government in accordance with the provision of an agreement with the Government of the other State, which provision shall be notified by the Government in the Official Gazette.