Chapter II — MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Section 77Port State responsibilities

Section 77: Port State responsibilities

77. Port State responsibilities

(1)

The Central Government shall, for the purposes of giving effect to the provisions of Part A of the Code of the Maritime Labour Convention relating to port State responsibilities, make rules for all or any of the following matters, namely:---

(a)

establishing an on shore complaint redressal procedure;

(b)

establishing a procedure for inspections in port;

(c)

compliance and enforcement.

(2)

The Director-General shall notify a system for inspection of vessels and the procedure for port State inspections, including---

(a)

the requirement to develop, maintain and update an electronic inspection database, containing all information required for implementation of an effective and coordinated system of regular inspections; and

(b)

specifying risk profile of all vessels calling at Indian ports in the inspection database.