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[THE
2*COASTING-VESSELS ACT, 1838]
ACT NO. 19 OF 1838
[27th August, 1838]
1.
Extent.
3*[1. Extent.--This Act
extends in the first
instance 4*[to the territories which, immediately before the
1st November, 1956, were comprised in
the States] of Bombay, Saurashtra and Kutch, but
the
Central Government may, by
notification in the
Official Gazette, extend it
to any other State 5*[or
part of a
State] which has a sea-coast.]
2.
Rules as
to coasting and other vessels belonging to any citizen ofIndia.
2. Rules
as to coasting and other
vessels belonging to any citizen of
India.--6* The following rules
shall be in force with respect
to vessels belonging to
7*[any citizen of
India] 8*,and employed on the coasts of 9*[any State 5*[or
part of a State]
to which this
Act extends] or in trading coastwise, as also with respect to
fishing-vessels and harbour-craft belonging
to 10[any such citizen].
3.
Owner to paint name and number
3. Marking or branding vessels with name
of place and number.--11 * Every
such vessel employed
as aforesaid, fishing-vessel and harbour-craft shall be marked or branded with
the name of the place to
which she belongs, and also with a number
assigned for the same by the officer authorised to make such registry as is
hereinafter mentioned;
Owner to
paint name and number--and the
owner or owners of such vessel employed as aforesaid,
fishing-vessel and harbour-craft shall cause such
name and number to be painted in
black paint upon a white ground on
each quarter of such vessel employed as aforesaid, fishing- vessel and
harbour-craft, in English figures and letters, each figure and letter being six inches in length.
