Section 237: Ports or places where special trade passengers or pilgrims may embark or be discharged.

(1) Neither a special trade passenger ship nor a pilgrim ship shall depart or proceed from on discharge special trade passengers or pilgrims, as the case may be, at any port or place within India other than a port or place appointed in this behalf by the Central Government for special trade passenger ships or pilgrim ships, as the case may be.

(2) After a ship has departed or proceeded on a voyage from a port or place so appointed, a person shall not be received on board as a special trade passenger or pilgrim, as the case may be, except at some other port or place so appointed.