Indian Ports Act, 1908
23. Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits
If any person boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammer,
turpentine, oil, or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within
any such port, or at any place within its limits where such act is prohibited
by the 2[Government], or contrary to the directions of the
conservator, he and the master of the vessel shall for every such offence be
punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees each.