Police-officer, or by the occupier of, or the agent or servant of, or other person authorized by, the occupier of, that place, or by any agent or servant of, or other person authorized by, the railway administration or conservator of the port, and be removed from the place where he is arrested and conveyed as soon as conveniently may be before a Magistrate.

14. Nothing in this Act shall apply to the manufacture, possession, use, sale, transport or importation of any explosive

Saving for manufacture, possession, use, sale, transport or importation by Government.

(a) by order of the Government, or (b) by any person employed under the Government in the execution of this Act, or as a keeper of a magazine, artizan, soldier, sailor, policeman or otherwise, or enrolled as a volunteer under the Indian Volunteers Act, 1869, in the course of his employment or duty as such.

Saving of Indian Arms Act, 1878.

15. Nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of the Indian Arms Act, 1878:

Provided that an authority granting a license under this Act for the manufacture, possession, sale, transport or importation of an explosive may, if empowered in this behalf by the rules under which the license is granted, direct by an order written on the license that it shall have the effect of a like license granted under the said Indian Arms Act.

16. Nothing in this Act or the rules under this Act shall prevent any

Saving as to liability under other law.

person from being prosecuted under any other law for any act or omission which constitutes an offence against this Act or those rules, or from being liable under that other law to any other or higher punishment or penalty than that provided by this Act or those rules:

Extension of definition of

substances.

Provided that a person shall not be punished twice for the same offence. 17. The Governor General in Council may, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, declare "explosive" to other explosive that any substance which appears to the Governor General in Council to be specially dangerous to life or property, by reason either of its explosive properties or of any process in the manufacture thereof being liable to explosion, shall be deemed to be an explosive within the meaning of this Act; and the provisions of this Act (subject to such exceptions, limitations and restrictions as may be specified in the notification) shall accordingly extend to that substance in like manner as if it were included in the definition of the term explosive" in this Act.

18. (1) An authority

Procedure for making, publication and confirmation of rules.

making rules under this Act shall, before making the rules, publish a draft of the proposed rules for the information of persons likely to be affected thereby.

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(2) The publication shall be made in such manner as the Governor General in Council, from time to time, by notification in the Gazette of India, prescribes.

(3) There shall be published with the draft a notice specifying a date at or after which the draft will be taken into consideration.

(4) The authority making the rules shall receive and consider any objection or suggestion which may be made by any person with respect to the draft before the date so specified.

(5) A rule made under this Act shall not take effect if it is made by the Governor General in Council until it has been published in the Gazette of India, and if it is made by the Local Government until it has been published in the local official Gazette.

(6) The publication in the Gazette of a rule purporting to be made under this Act shall be conclusive evidence that it has been duly made, and, if it requires sanction, that it has been duly sanctioned.

(7) All powers to make rules conferred by this Act may be exercised from time to time as occasion requires.

Act No. V. of 1884. (Chutia Nagpur.)

Act No. VI. of 1884.

RECEIVED THE ASSENT OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL ON THE 29TH FEBRUARY,

Sections.

54. Penalty for neglect or refusal to deliver up certificate of survey.

55. Penalty for serving, or engaging a person to serve, as master, engineer or engine-driver without certificate. 56. Penalty for master failing to give notice of wreck or casualty.

57. Penalty for master, engineer or engine driver failing to deliver up cancelled or suspended certificate. 58. Penalty for taking dangerous goods on board inland steam-vessel without notice.

59. Penalty for misconduct endangering inland steam-vessel or life or limb. 60. Distress of inland steam-vessel. Jurisdiction of Magistrates.

61.

An Act to amend the law relating to the Survey, and the Examination and Grant of Certificates to Engineers, of Inland Steam-vessels, and to provide for certain other matters relating to those vessels.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the survey of inland steam-vessels and the examination and grant of certificates to engineers of those vessels;

And whereas it is also expedient to provide for the grant of certificates to the masters of inland steam-vessels, and for investigations into casualties affecting, and into charges against masters and engineers of, those vessels, and for the protection of passengers and goods carried thereon from danger by fire and for the regulation of the carriage of passengers therein; It is hereby enacted as follows:—

Short title and extent.

CHAPTER I.

PRELIMINARY.

1. (1) This Act may be called the Inland Steam-vessels Act, 1884.

(2) It extends in the first instance to the whole of British India, except the territories administered by the Governor of Fort St. George in Council.

(3) But the Governor of Fort St. George in Council may, at any time, by notification in the local official Gazette, extend this Act or any part thereof to the whole or any part of the territories under his administration.

Commencement.

2. (1) This Act shall come into force in the whole of British India, except the territories administered by the Governor of Fort St. George in Council, on such day as the Governor General in Council, by notification in the Gazette of India, directs(a).

(2) If the Governor of Fort St. George in Council extends this Act or any part thereof to the whole or any part of the territories under his administration, the Act or part so extended shall come into force in the local area to which it is so extended on such day as the Governor in Council, by the notification extending the Act or part, directs.

(3) Provided that any notification, rule or appointment may be made under this Act at any time after the passing thereof, but, except in the case of a notification under section sixty-nine, sub-section (2), shall not take effect until the Act or part thereof, under which the notification, rule or appointment is made, comes into force.

Repeal of enactments.

3. (1) On and from the day on which this Act comes into force, elsewhere than in the territories administered by the Governor of Fort St. George in Council, the Acts mentioned in the first column of the first schedule hereto annexed shall be repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column thereof.

(2) But all proceedings commenced, investigations held, and certificates X/9/20 granted, cancelled or suspended under any of the said Acts shall be deemed to have been respectively commenced, held, granted, cancelled or suspended under this Act or under the Indian Steam-ships Act, 1884, as the case may be.

(3) For the purposes of the last foregoing sub-section, a certificate granted to the commander of an inland steam-vessel under Bengal Act VII. of 1879 (to provide for the proper management of certain inland steamvessels) shall be deemed to be a first-class master's certificate granted under this Act; and an engineer's certificate, whether of competency or service, granted under any other of the Acts repealed by this Act shall be deemed to be an engineer's certificate granted under this Act or a first-class engineer's certificate granted under the Indian Steam-ships Act, 1884, as the case may be.

4. When in any Act, Regulation or Notification passed or issued Reference to repealed Acts in before this Act comes into force, reference is other Acts, Regulations and made to any Act repealed by this Act, the Notifications. reference shall, so far as may be practicable,

be read as applying to this Act or the Indian Steam-ships Act, 1884, or the corresponding part of this Act or that Act, as the case may be.

Definitions.

5. In this Act, unless there is something repugnant in the subject or context,

(1) "vessel" includes anything made for the conveyance by water of human beings or of property:

8. 2 (1) (a).-The 1st December, 1885, is the day directed. G. G. 1885, p. 1212.