Indian Ports Act, 1908
37. Grouping of ports
(1) The State Government may direct that for the purposes of the
lass foregoing section any number of ports 52[in the State not being
major ports] shall be regarded as constituting a single port, and thereupon all
moneys to be credited to the port fund account under sub-section (4) of that
section shall farm a common port fund account which shall be available for the
payment of all expenses incurred for the sake of any of the ports:
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(2) Where ports are grouped by or under this Act, the following
consequences ensue, namely
(a) the State Government, in the exercise of
its control over expenditure debitable to the common port fund account of the
group, may, 54[***] make rules with respect of the expenditure of
the fund for the sake of the several ports of the group on the objects
authorized by this Act 54[***]; and
(b) the State Government may exercise its
authority under section 34 as regards all the ports in, the group collectively
or as regards any of them separately.