Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) The State Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, constitute a State Ports Consultative Committee consisting of members of the Board and such other persons, not being more than twenty, as the State Government may appoint from amongst persons who are, in the opinion of the State Government, capable of representing the interests of the commerce, shipping, sailing, vessels, Customs, Railways, road transport, labour, communications, fisheries and industries, expertise in harbour engineering, 66 hydro-graphic survey, maritime research organisations, town planning and development, environment, labour welfare, Port User Association and any other relevant interest-group: Provided that there shall be at least one member representing the each of the aforesaid interests. (2) The Chairperson of the Board shall also be the Chairperson of the Committee. (3) The Chief Executive Officer of the Board shall function as Secretary to the Committee. (4) The functions of the committee shall include the following:— (a) to advise the Board on all general questions and schemes pertaining to the ports, non- nationalized inland water transport and ferries and coastal protection; (b) to review the administration of ports, non- nationalized inland water transport and ferries and coastal protection and to suggest measures for improvement; (c) to suggest measures to remove any difficulty experienced by the Board in its administration of ports, inland water transport and ferries and coastal protection; (d) to make suo moto recommendations to the Board in regard to any matter relating to administration of the ports, non-nationalized inland water transport and ferries and coastal protection, and productive use of non-port land; and (e) to report to the State Government or as the case may be, to the Board on such matter as may be referred to it either by the State Government or the Board for its opinion. 67 (5) The State Government may prescribe in the rules for — (a) convening the meeting of the committee and procedure of the meetings; (b) duties of the Secretary of the Committee; (c) the term of the office of persons appointed to be the members of the committee to represent any of the aforesaid interests, norms for travelling and other allowance to the members of the committee. (6) Any person appointed to the Committee may resign from the membership by tendering his resignation in writing to the Chairperson and the resignation shall take effect from the date on which it is received by the chairperson who shall give intimation of the vacancy to the State Government. Local Advisory Committee. 106.(1) The State Government may, from time to time constitute to each of such ports as it may deem necessary a Local Advisory Committee, consisting of such number of persons as it may deem fit in each case and on such terms and conditions as may be prescribed. (2) The Board may, if it deems fit, consult the Local Advisory Committee concerned on any point of business coming before it; and shall do so in respect of such points of business as the State Government may, by general or special order in this regard, specify or when required by the regulation so to do. (3) The Port Officer, appointed under the Indian Ports Act, shall be the ex officio Chairperson of a Local Advisory Committee. (4) The Local Advisory Committee shall meet at such intervals as may be prescribed by rules and for the transaction of urgent business on such other occasions as the Chairperson of the Board may require. 68 (5) The number of members necessary to constitute a quorum at a meeting of a Local Advisory Committee shall be, as the State Government may specify. Limitation of proceeding in respect of things done under this Act. 107.No suit or other proceeding shall be commenced against the Board or any member or employee thereof for anything done or purporting to have been done in pursuance of this Act until the expiration of one month after notice in writing has been given to the Board and him stating the cause of action, or after six months from the date of cause of action. Protection of act done in good faith.