(1) The Board shall, from time to time also frame a scale of rates on payment of which and a statement of conditions under which any property belonging to, or the pos session or occupation of, the Board or any place within the limits of the port or port approaches may be used for the purposes specified hereunder:—
(a) approaching or lying at or alongside any buoy, mooring, wharf, quay, pier, dock, land, building or place as aforesaid by vessels;
(b) entering upon or playing for hire at or on any wharf, quay, pier, dock, land, building, road, bridge, approach or place as aforesaid by animals or vehicles carrying passengers or goods;
(c) leasing of land or sheds by owners of goods imported or intended for export or by steamer agents;
(d) any other use of any land, building, works, vessels or appliances belonging to or provided by the Board.
(2) Different scales of rates and conditions may be framed for different classes of goods and vessels and for different ports.
39. The Board may, from time to time, frame a consolidated scale of rates for any combination of the services specified in section 37 or for any combination of such service or services with any user or permission to use any property belonging to or in the posses sion or occupation of the Board, as specified in section 38.
40. In framing scales of rates under any of the foregoing provisions of this Chapter, the Board may prescribe a lower rate in respect of :-
(a) coastal goods, that is to say, goods other than imported goods as defined in the Customs Act, 1962 carried in a vessel from one Indian Port to another Indian Port:
Provided that the Board shall not make any discrimination between one Indian port and another such port in prescribing a lower rate under this section ;
(b) Other goods in special cases.
41. Every scale of rates and every statement of conditions framed by the Board under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter shall be submitted to the State Government for sanction and shall have effect when so sanctioned and published by the Board in Official Gazette.