THE INLAND VESSELS ACT, 1917.ACT NO. 1 OF 1917 1*

[7th February, 1917.]


An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to 2*Inland Vessels.



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PRELIMINARY


CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY


1.Short title and extent.


1. Short title and extent. (1) This Act may be called the [Inland
Vessels] 8* Act, 1917.4*[(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir:

5*[Provided that it shall not come into force in any part of the territories which on the 31st day of March 1936, were included in the
Province of Madras or which on the 31st day of October, 1956, were included in the State of Travancore-Cochin, unless the State
Government concerned, by notification in the Official Gazette, so directs.]


2.Definitions.


2. Definitions. 6*[(1)] In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,--

7*[(a) "inland vessel" or "inland mechanically propelled vessel" means a mechanically propelled vessel which ordinarily plies on any inland water;]

6*[(b)] "inland water" means any canal, river, lake or other navigable water 5***;

7*[(c) "mechanically propelled vessel" means every description of vessel propelled wholly or in part by electricity, steam or other mechanical power]

6*[(d)] "passenger" includes any person carried in a
10*[mechanically propelled vessel] other than the master and crew and the owner, his family and servants;

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1. This Act has been amended in Bengal by Ben. Act 7 of 1940. This
Act came into force on 1st June, 1917, vide Gazette of India,
1917, Pt. I., P. 988.Extended to Goa, Daman and Diu with modifications, by Reg. 12 of 1962, s. 3 and Sch.

The Act comes into force in Pondicherry on 1.10.1963 vide Reg. 7 of
1963, s. 3 and Sch. I.
2. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977 s. 2, for "steam-vessel" (w.e.f.1.5.1978).
3. Subs. by s. 3, ibid., for "steam-vessel" (w.e.f. 1.5.1978).
4. Subs. by Act 26 of 1951, s. 2, for sub-sections (2) and (3).
5. Subs. by the Adaptation of Laws (No. 3) Order, 1956, for the former proviso.
6. Cl. (c) renumbered by Act 35 of 1977, s. 6 (w.e.f. 1.5.1978).
7. Ins. by s. 6, ibid. (w.e.f. 1.5.1978).
8. For power to define how much of any tidal water shall be deemed to be an "inland water", see s. 70, infra.
9. The words "in the Provinces" omitted by the A. O. 1950.
10. Subs. by Act 35 of 1977, s. 5, for "steam-vessel" (w.e.f.
1.5.1978)

116.1*[(e)] "prescribed" means prescribed by any rule under this
Act;

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1*[(f)] "survey" means the survey of a 3*[mechanically propelled vessel] under this Act;

1*[(g)] "surveyor" means a surveyor appointed under this
Act; and

1*[(h)] "voyage" includes the plying of a 2*[mechanically propelled vessel] at or about any place.

4*[(2) Any reference to the Inland Steam-vessels Act, 1917 (1 of
1917), in any law for the time being in force or in any instrument or other document shall be construed as a reference to the Inland Vessels
Act, 1917.]