Section 9 — Grouping of Ports. | THE KARNATAKA PORTS (LANDING AND SHIPPING FEES) ACT, 1961

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9. Grouping of ports.—(1) The State Government may by notification direct that for the 

purposes of section 8, any number of ports in the State shall be regarded as constituting a 

single port, and thereupon all moneys to be credited to the Port Fees Fund Account under 

section 8 shall form a common Port Fund Account called the 1[Karnataka Ports Funds 

Account]1 which shall be available for the payment of all expenses incurred for the sake of 

any of the ports. 

(2) Where ports are grouped under sub-section (1), the following consequences shall 

ensue, namely:— 

 (a) the State Government may make rules with respect to the expenditure of the fund 

for the sake of the several ports of the group on the objects authorised by this Act and the 

Indian Ports Act, 1908; and 

 (b) the State Government may exercise the authority under this Act and under section 

34 of the Indian Ports Act, 1908, as regards all the ports in the group collectively or as 

regards any of them separately. 

1. Adapted by the Karnataka Adaptations of Laws Order 1973 w.e.f.  1.11.1973

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