Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Motor vehicles in Port premises shall be driven with the utmost caution having regard to the traffic and shall also comply with the following other conditions. (i) Such motor vehicles shall conform in all respects to provision of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1939 and the rules made there under. (ii) Such motor vehicles shall not be left unattended. (iii) Such motor vehicles shall ordinarily traverse the recognised roads in the Port, but may be permitted on the quays, in transit sheds and open storage space, for the purpose of being loaded and unloaded subject to control by Port Trust or Police officers. (iv) (a) Such motor vehicles carrying goods when entering or leaving the Board's premises at the wharves shall stop at the gates until permission to pass has been obtained from the Port Trust or Customs Officers or Police on duty at the gate and the driver thereof shall on demand produce for inspection such documents as are required for the checking goods carried therein. (b) Motor vehicles for the conveyance of persons and their personal luggage (if any) when entering or leaving the Board's premises at the wharves shall stop at the gates until permission to pass has been obtained from the Port Trust or Customs Officers or Police on duty at the gate. (v) No such motor vehicle shall be allowed to remain within the Board's premises at the wharves longer than as shall, in the opinion of the Traffic Manager, be necessary for the purpose of loading or unloading goods. Loitering and plying for hire is prohibited. (vi) No such motor vehicles shall fill their tanks with petrol or other fuel within the Board's premises at the wharves without a special permit from the Traffic Manager.