Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare what gratuities shall be allowed to masters of ships, not being mail ships, in respect of postal articles received by them for conveyance on behalf of the post office; and the master of a ship, not being a mail ship, about to leave any port in [India] as aforesaid shall, if he received on board a mail bag for conveyance, be entitled to demand and obtain immediately the amount of the gratuity payable under this section in respect of the mail bag and its contents. Substituted by Act 25 of 1950, S.11 and Sch. IV, for "the States".