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Section 48 of THE INDIAN PORTS ACT, 1908

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 6[any port 7[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.

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