(1) The Government may, subject to the condition of previous publication and by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out the purposes of this Act:
Provided that the date to be specified under clause (3) of section 23 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), shall not be less than thirty days from the date on which the draft of the proposed rules was published.
(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provided for ---
(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 fee payable and places where passengers may land or embark;
(b) the places, the language or languages in which the rates of fees shall be notified under section 4;
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(c) regulating the manner in which such fees shall be assessed and the time within which they shall be paid;
(d) Providing for the ascertainment and recovery of the amount of any damage that may be caused to a pier, jetty, quay, wharf or other work in a port by any person or by any vessel or drift; and
(e) any other matter which is to be or may be prescribed.
(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as possible after it is made, before the Legislative Assembly, Puducherry, while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and, if before the expiry of the session or the sessions in which it is so laid, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the rule or decides 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.
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS FOR ACT 16 OF 1971 The Indian Ports Act, 1908 (15 of 1908) has been extended to this territory with effect from 1-10-1963 under the Puducherry (Laws) Regulation, 1963.
Although the said Act provides, among other things, for the collection of various dues and charges, it does not provide for the collection of landing and shipping fees. This Bill is intended to empower this Government to collect the landing and shipping fees.
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