(1) The State Government may, 1[XXX]1 by notification make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act.
1. Omitted by Act 45 of 2025 w.e.f ………………………….
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, rules may be made,—
(a) appointing places where goods or particular classes of goods intended for shipment or landed from ships within the port are to be placed for the purpose of assessing the fees payable under this Act and places where passengers may embark or disembark;
(b) prescribing the fees and penalties payable under section 3;
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(c) regulating the manner in which such fees shall be assessed and the time when they shall be paid;
(d) providing for the manner in which table of fees shall be displayed at any port;
(e) providing for the ascertainment and recovery of the amount of any damage that may be caused to a pier, jetty, wharf or quay in a port by any person or by any vessel or drift;
(f) prescribing the uniforms or badges to be worn by officers and persons exercising powers under section 4;
(g) providing for management of the traffic over, in or about and to and from every area within the port limits;
(h) prescribing the authority and the manner of maintaining the Port Fees Fund Account and the 1[Karnataka Ports Funds Account]1
(i) generally for carrying out the purposes of this Act.
(3) Any rule made under this section may provide that a breach thereof shall, on conviction, be punished with fine which may extend to 2[One lakh rupees]2 and when the breach is a continuing one with further fine which may extend to 2[five thousand rupees]2 for every day after the first during which the breach continues.
1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptation of Laws Order 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973
2. Substituted by Act 9 of 2007 w.e.f. 28.04.2007
(4) Every rule made under this Act, shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one or in two or more successive sessions, and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the sessions immediately following, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so however that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptation of Laws Order 1973 w.e.f. 1.11.1973