Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Board may, with the previous approval of the Government, make regulations consistent with this Act and the rules made thereunder to carry out the purposes of this Act and without prejudice to the generality of this power, such regulations may provide for all or any of following matters, namely:-- (a) the time and place of the meetings of the Board or its committees, the procedure to be followed for the transaction of business at such meetings and the number of members necessary to constitute the quorum at such meetings; (b) the appointment, promotion, suspension, removal and dismissal of its officers and employees; (c) leave, leave allowances, pensions, gratuities, compassionate allowances and travelling allowances of the officers and employees, the establishment and maintenance of a provident fund or any other fund for their welfare; (d) the time within which and the manner in which appeals may be preferred under sub-section (2) of Section 15 and the procedure for deciding such appeals; (e) the terms and conditions of service of persons who become employees of the Board under Clause (f) of Section 16; (f) any other matter which is incidental to or necessary for the purpose of regulating the appointment and conditions of service of its employees; (g) the form of receipt to be given under sub-section (2) of Section 31; (h) the period within which notice may be given under sub-section (2) of Section 32; (i) the safe, efficient and convenient use, management and control of the docks, wharves, quays, jetties, buildings and other works constructed or acquired by or vested in, the Board, or of any land or foreshore acquired by, or vested in, the Board, under this Act; (j) the reception, porterage, storage and removal of goods brought within the premises of the Board, for the exclusive conduct of these operations by the Board or persons employed by the Board, and for declaring the procedure to be followed for taking charge of goods which may have been damaged before landing, or may be alleged to have been so damaged; (k) keeping clean the port, river or basins or the bank of the river and the works of the Board, and for preventing filth or rubbish being thrown therein or thereon; (l) the mode of payment of rates leviable by the Board under this Act; (m) regulating, declaring and defining the docks, wharves, quays, jetties, stages and piers vested in the Board on which goods shall be landed from vessels and shipped on board vessels; (n) regulating the manner in which and the conditions under which the loading and unloading of all vessels within the port or port approaches shall be carried out: (o) regulating the lighterage of cargo between ships or between ships and shore or between shore and ships; (p) the exclusion from the premises of the Board of disorderly or other undesirable persons and of trespassers; (q) ensuring the safety of the port; (r) generally for the efficient and proper administration of the ports; (s) the person, if any, authorized to sign and the mode of affixing the corporate seal and of attestation of documents relating to securities issued or to be issued by the Board; (t) the manner in which payment of interest in respect of such securities to be made, recorded and acknowledged; (u) the circumstances and the manner in which securities may be renewed; (v) the circumstances in which such securities must be renewed before further payment of interest thereon can be claimed; (w) the form in which such securities delivered for renewal, conversion, consolidation or sub-division are to be receipted; (x) the proof which is to be produced by a person applying for duplicate securities; (y) the form and manner of publication of the notification mentioned in sub-section (2) of Section 58 and the manner of publication of the list mentioned in sub-section (3) of that section; (z) the nature and amount of indemnity to be given by a person applying for the payment of interest on the securities alleged to have been wholly or partly lost, stolen or destroyed, or for the issue of duplicate Securities; (za) the conditions subject to which securities may be converted, consolidated or sub-divided; (zb) the amount for which stock certificate may be issued; (zc) generally all matters connected with the grant of duplicate, renewal, conversion, consolidation and sub-division of securities; (zd) the fees to be paid in respect of the issue of duplicate securities and of the renewal, conversion, consolidation and sub-division of securities; (ze) the fees to be levied in respect of the issue of stock certificate; (zf) any other matter, which is to be, or may be, provided by regulations.