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THE INDIAN PORTS ACT, 1908 · RULES FOR THE SAFETY OF SHIPPING AND THE CONSERVATION OF PORTS — General Rules

Section 23 — Boiling pitch on board vessel within prohibited limits

If any person boils or heats any pitch, tar, resin, dammer, turpentine, oil, or other such combustible matter on board any vessel within any such port, or at any place within its limits where such act is prohibited by the 1[Government], or contrary to the directions of the conservator, he and the master of the vessel shall for every such offence be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees each.