(1)The Board shall, from time to time, also prescribe scale of rates on payment of which and a statement of conditions under which any property belonging to or in the possession or occupation of the Board or any place within the limits of the port or port approaches or non-nationalized inland waterways 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 plying for hire at or on any wharf, quay, pier, dock, land, building, road, bridge, approach or place as aforesaid by 38 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; and
(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 prescribed for different classes of goods and vessels and for different ports and non-nationalized inland waterways.
Consolidated scales of rate for combination of services.
40. The Board may, from time to time, prescribe consolidated scale of rates for any combination of the services specified in Section 38 or for any combination of such service or services with any use or permission to use any property belonging to, or in the possession or occupation of the Board, as specified in Section 39.
Power to levy concessional rates in certain cases.
41.In prescribing 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 vessels from one port to another 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; and
(b)other goods in special cases.
52 of 1962.
Scales of rate and conditions.
42. Every scale of rate and every statement of conditions prescribed by the Board under the foregoing sections of this chapter shall be submitted to the State Government for 39 approval and shall take effect only when so approved and published in the official Gazette.
Power of the State Government to require modification or cancellation of rates.