Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Subs. by Act 15 of 1997, s. 3, for clause (jj) (w.e.f. 9-1-1997). 7 1[(k) for licensing and regulating catamarans plying for hire, and flats and cargo, passenger and other boats plying, whether for hire or not, and whether regularly or only occasionally, in or partly within and partly without any such port, and for licensing and regulating the crews of any such vessels; and for determining the quantity of cargo or number of passengers or of the crew to be carried by any such vessels and the conditions under which such vessels shall be compelled to ply for hire, and further for the conditions under which any licence may be revoked; (kk) for providing for the fees payable in respect of the services specified in clause (k) for any port, other than a major port;] (l) for regulating the use of fires and lights within any such port; (m) for enforcing and regultaing the use of signals or signal-lights by vessels by day or by night in any such port; (n) for regulating the number of the crew which must be on board any vessel afloat within the limits of any such port; (o) for regulating the employment of persons engaged in cleaning or painting vessels, or in working in the bilges, boilers or double bottoms of vessels in any such port; 2[(p) 3*** for the prevention of danger arising to the public health by the introduction and the spread of any infectious or contagious disease from vessels arriving at, or being in, any such port, and for the prevention of the conveyance of infection or contagion by means of any vessel sailing from any such port, and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of this provision, for— (i) the signals to be hoisted and the places of anchorage to be taken up by such vessels having any case, or suspected case, of any infectious or contagious disease on board, or arriving at such port from a port in which, or in the neighbourhood of which, there is believed to be, or to have been at the time when the vessel left such port, any infectious or contagious disease; (ii) the medical inspection of such vessels and of persons on board such vessels; (iii) the questions to be answered and the information to be supplied by masters, pilots and other persons on board such vessels; (iv) the detention of such vessels and of persons on board such vessels; (v) the duties to be performed in cases of any such disease by masters, pilots and other persons on board such vessels; (vi) the removal to hospital or other place approved by the health-officer and the detention therein of any person from any such vessel who is suffering or suspected to be suffering from any such disease; (vii) the cleansing, ventilation and disinfection of such vessels or any part thereof and of any articles therein likely to retain infection or contagion, and the destruction of rats or other vermin in such vessels; (viii) the disposal of the dead on such vessels; and] (q) for securing the protection from heat of the officers and crew of vessels in any such port by requiring the owner or master of any such vessel— (i) to provide curtains and double awnings for screening from the sun‟s rays such portions of the deck as are occupied by, or are situated immediately above, the quarters of the officers and crew;