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Section 18: Indemnity of Government against act or default of port-official or pilot

The indian ports Act,1908State Act of Odisha · Act 15 of 1908

The Government shall not be responsible for any act or default of any conservator, port-officer or harbour-master, of any

1. Ins. by Act 55 of 1952, s. 2.

2. Subs. by the A.O. 1937, for “Local Government”.

3. See now the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958).

12 port subject to this Act, or of any deputy or assistant of any of the authorities aforesaid, or of any person acting under the control or direction of any such authority, deputy or assistant, or for any act or default of any pilot, or for any damage sustained by any vessel in consequence of any defect in any of the moorings, hawsers or other things belonging to the Government which may be used by the vessel:

Provided that nothing in this section shall protect 1 [the Government] from a suit in respect of any act done by or under the express order or sanction of the Government.

CHAPTER IV RULES FOR THE SAFETY OF SHIPPING AND THE CONSERVATION OF PORTS General Rules

Where this provision sits

ActThe indian ports Act,1908
Section18
Marginal noteIndemnity of Government against act or default of port-official or pilot
JurisdictionState of Odisha
StatusIn force as published by the source

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