The Central Government may, from time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to regulate or prohibit, in any fairway leading to a port in 2[the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in Part A States and Part C States] the placing of fishing-stakes, the casting or throwing of ballast, rubbish, or any other thing likely to give rise to a bank or shoal, or the doing of any other act which will, in its opinion, cause, or be likely to cause, obstruction or danger to navigation.