The INLAND VESSELS ACT, 1917

PENALTIES AND LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Section 57: Penalty for neglect or refusal to deliver up or surrender certificates of survey or registration.

If the owner or master of an inland mechanically propelled vessel without reasonable cause neglects or refuses—

(a) to deliver up a certificate of survey when required under section 14 so to do; or

(b) to ,deliver up a certificate of registration when required under section 19N so to do; or

(c) to surrender a certificate of registration as required by section 190; he shall be punishable with fine, which may extend to one hundred rupees.]