No port-due shall be chargeable in
respect of--
(a) any pleasure yacht, or
(b) any vessel which, having left any port, is compelled to re -enter it by stress of whether or in consequence of having sustained any damage, or
(c) any vessel which, having entered 1[any port 2[in the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Madras and Andhra] or the Port of Gopalpur in the State of Orissa], leaves it within forty-eight hours without discharge or taking in any passengers or cargo.
(a) any pleasure yacht, or
(b) any vessel which, having left any port, is compelled to re -enter it by stress of whether or in consequence of having sustained any damage, or
(c) any vessel which, having entered 1[any port 2[in the territories which, immediately before the 1st November, 1956, were comprised in the States of Madras and Andhra] or the Port of Gopalpur in the State of Orissa], leaves it within forty-eight hours without discharge or taking in any passengers or cargo.
1. Subs. by Act 35 of 1950, s. 3 and Second Schedule, for certain words.
2. Subs. by the A.O. (No. 2), 1956, for "in the State of Madras or in the State of Andhra". The words in italics were ins. by the Andhra (Adaptation of Laws on Union Subjects) Order, 1954 (w.e.f. 1-10-1953)