Section 48: Port-due not to be chargeable in certain cases.

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 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.