Indian Ports Act, 1908
4. Power to extend or withdraw the Act or certain portions
thereof
(1) 9[***] 2[Government] may, by
notification in the Official Gazette,-
(a) extend this Act to any port in which this
Act is not in force or to any part of any navigable river or channel which
leads to a port and in which this Act is not in force;
(b) specially extend the provisions of section
31 or section 32 to any port to which they have not been so extended;
(c) withdraw this Act or section 31 or section
32 from any port or any part thereof in which it is for the time being in
force.
(2) A notification under clause (a) or clause (b) of sub-section
(1) shall define the limits of the area to which it refers.
(3) Limits defined under sub-section (2) may include any piers,
jetties, landing-places, wharves, quays, docks and other works made on behalf
of the public for convenience of traffic, for safety of vessels or for the
improvement, maintenance or good government of the port and its approaches
whether within or without high-water-mark, and, subject to any rights of
private property therein, any portion of the shore or bank within fifty yards
of high-water-mark.
(4) In sub-section (3) the expression
"high-water-mark" means the highest point reached by ordinary spring
tides at any season of the year.