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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, — (a) “administration” means administration of the port and non-port lands and non-nationalized inland waterways including grant of land or waterway on lease for any purpose, provision of civic amenities and services on port and non-port lands, and collection of such taxes, fees and charges and expenditure of such revenue as may be approved by the State Government; (b) “appointed date”, in relation to any port, means the date on which this Act is made applicable to that port or non-nationalized inland waterways; (c) “Board” means the Odisha Maritime Board constituted under section3; (d) “board security” means debentures, bonds or dock certificates issued by the Board in respect of any loan contracted by it under the provisions of this Act; (e) “chairperson” means Chairperson of the Board appointed under section 3 and shall include the person appointed under section 9 to act in his place; (f) “dock” means and includes all basins, locks, cuts, entrances, graving docks, graving blocks, inclined planes, slipway gridirons, moorings, transit sheds, warehouses, godowns, open lands and other works and things appertaining to any dock and shall also 9 include such portion of the sea enclosed or protected by the arms or groynes of a harbour; (g) “foreshore” means the area between the high water mark and the low water mark relating to that port; (h) “goods” means merchandise and includes live stock; (i) “High Water Mark” means the highest point at that port reached by ordinary spring tides during any season of the year; (j) “immovable property” means all immovable property of the Board and includes all other rights exercisable on, over or in respect of any land, wharf, dock or pier; (k) “Indian Ports Act” means the Indian Ports Act, 1908; (l) “Inland Water Transport (IWT)” means Inland Water Transport System including ferry services in the State; (m) “land” means land vested in the Board and shall include the bed of sea or river below high water mark and things attached to the earth or permanently fastened to anything attached to the earth; (n) “low Water Mark”, means the lowest point reached by ordinary spring tides at any season of the year at that port; (o) “major Port”, means a port designated by Government of India as a major port in terms of the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963; (p) “master” means any person for the time being in charge or control of a vessel or craft, as the case may be, except a pilot, harbour master, dock master or berthing master of the port; (q) “member” means a member of the Board or its Committee, as the case may be; (r) “Non-Nationlized Inland Waterways” means the Waterways other than those declared as National 15 of 1908. 38 of 1963. 10 Waterways by the Parliament by law; (s) “non-port land” means the land vested in the Board but not immediately put to any use directly related to maritime activities of the port; (t) “owner” means,— (i) in relation to goods, any consignor, consignee, shipper or agent for the sale, custody, loading or unloading of such goods; and (ii) in relation to any vessel or craft making use of any port and includes any port owner, charterer, consignee or mortgagee in possession thereof; (u) “pier” means and includes any stage, stairs, landing place, hard jetty, floating barge trans-shipper or pontoon and any bridges or other works connected therewith; Explanation,—Trans-shipper means a floating craft for vessel whether dump or self-propelled, with provision for discharging cargo from a barge or wharf and loading it onto a ship; (v) “port” means an Indian port to which this Act applies within such limits as may, from time to time, be defined by the State Government under the Indian Ports Act; (w) “port approaches”, in relation to a port, means those parts of the navigable rivers and channels leading to the port to which the Indian Ports Act applies; (x) prescribed” means prescribed by rules or regulations made under this Act; (y) “public securities” means – (i) promissory notes, debentures, stock or other securities of the Central Government or any State Government, the principal and the interest whereof have been fully and unconditionally guaranteed by such Government; and 11 (ii) debentures or other securities for money issued by or on behalf of any Municipal Corporation, Municipality, Notified Area Council, Improvement Trust or Port Trust under the authority or any law for the time being in force in the State and includes the Board Securities; (z) “rate” means the money payable against any toll, dues, rent, fee or charge leviable under this Act; (za) “regulations” means regulations made under this Act; (zb) “rules” means rules made under this Act; (zc) “State” means the State of Odisha; (zd) “State Government” means the Government of Odisha; (ze) “vessel” means a means of transport by water, of passengers and goods; and (zf) “wharf” includes any wall or stage and any part of the land or foreshore that may be used for loading or unloading goods or for the embarking or disembarking of passengers and any wall enclosing or adjoining the same. (2) Words and expressions used in this Act but not defined, shall have the same meaning as assigned to them in the Indian Ports Act, 1908 and the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963. 15 of 1908. 38 of 1963. CHAPTER II ESTABLISHMENTOF ODISHA MARITIMEBOARD Establishment of Odisha Maritime Board.