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Power to make port-rules.— (1) The 2[Government] may, in addition to any rules which it may make under any other enactment for the time being in force, make such rules, consistent with this Act, as it thinks necessary for any of the following purposes, namely: — (a) for regulating the time and hours at and during which, the speed at which, and the manner and conditions in and on which, vessels generally or vessels of any class defined in the rules, may enter, leave or be moved in any port subject to this Act; (b) for regulating the berths, stations and anchorages to be occupied by vessels in any such port; (c) for striking the yards and top masts, and for rigging-in the booms and yards, of vessels in any such port, and for swinging or taking-in davits, boats and other things projecting from such vessels; (d) for the removal or proper hanging or placing of anchors, spars and other things being in or attached to vessels in any such port: (e) for regulating vessels whilst taking-in or discharging passengers, ballast or cargo, or any particular kind of cargo, in any such port, and the stations to be occupied by vessels whilst so engaged; 3[(ee) for regulating the manner in which oil or water mixed with oil shall be discharged in any such port and for the disposal of the same;] 4[(eee) for regulating the bunkering of vessels with liquid fuel in any such port and the description description of barges, pipe lines or tank vehicles to be employed in such bunkering;] (f) for keeping free passages of such width as may be deemed necessary within any such port, and along or near to the piers, jetties, landing-places, wharves, (pays, docks, moorings and other works in or adjoining to the same, and for marking out the spaces so to be kept free; (g) for regulating the anchoring, fastening, mooring and unmooring of vessels in any such port; (h) for regulating the moving and warping of all vessels within any such port and the use of warps therein; (i) for regulating the use of the mooring buoys, chains and other moorings in any such port; (j) for fixing the rates to be paid 5[in a port other than a major port] for the use of such moorings when belonging to the 6[Government], or of any boat, hawser or other thing belonging to the 2[Government]; 7 [(jj) for regulating the use of piers, jetties, landing places, wharves, quays, warehouses and sheds when belonging to the Government; (jja) for fixing the rates to be paid for the use of piers, jetties, landing places, wharves, quays, warehouses and sheds of any port, other than a major port, when belonging to the Government;]