Indian Ports Act, 1908
16. Power to require crews to prevent or extinguish fire
(1) For the purpose of preventing or extinguishing fire in any
port subject to this Act, the conservator or port-officer may require the
master of any vessel within the port to place at his disposal such number as he
requires, not exceeding three-fourths, of the crew then under the orders of
such master.
(2) Any master refusing or neglecting to comply with such
requisition shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred
rupees, and any seaman then under his orders who, after being directed by the master
to obey the orders of the conservator or port-officer for the purpose
aforesaid, refuses to obey such orders, shall be punishable with fine which may
extend to twenty-five rupees.