Section 59: Penalty for serving, or engaging a person to serve, as master or engineer without certificate.

If any person—

(a) proceeds on any voyage in an inland mechanically propelled vessel as the master or engineer of such vessel without being at the time entitled to, and possessed of, a master‟s or serang‟s or an engineer‟s or engine-driver‟s certificate or a master‟s or engine-driver‟s licence as the case may be, as required under this Act, or

(b) employs as the master or engineer of an inland mechanically propelled vessel any person without ascertaining that he is at the time entitled to, and possessed of, such certificate or licence, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees.