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Tanzania
Ferries Act
Rugezi Ferry Regulations, 1956
Government Notice 119 of 1956
- Published in Tanzania Government Gazette
- Commenced
- [This is the version of this document at 31 July 2002.]
- [Note: This legislation was revised and consolidated as at 31 July 2002 and 30 November 2019 by the Attorney General's Office, in compliance with the Laws Revision Act No. 7 of 1994, the Revised Laws and Annual Revision Act (Chapter 356 (R.L.)), and the Interpretation of Laws and General Clauses Act No. 30 of 1972. All subsequent amendments have been researched and applied by Laws.Africa for TANZLII.]
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These Regulations may be cited as the Rugezi Ferry Regulations.2.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—"administration" means the Engineer-in-Chief or the officer acting on his behalf;"approved" means approved by the Regional Engineer, Mwanza Region, or the officer acting on his behalf;"ferry" means the craft used in carrying on the ferry service;"licensee" means the holder of a licence under the Ferries Act in respect of the Rugezi Public Ferry;"Nahodha" means the person appointed by the licensee to be in charge of the ferry;"toll collector" means the Nahodha or any person deputed by him to collect toll fees;3.
The ferry should be managed and carried on by the licensee by means of a pontoon or any other vessel provided by the administration.4.
The ferry service shall be officially maintained daily throughout the year and shall make crossings between Ukerewe Island and the mainland as and when required beginning at 7 a.m. and terminating at 10 p.m.5.
6.
The ferry shall keep out of the way of all vessels belonging to the Tanzania Railways Corporation and Tanzania Harbours Authority.7.
8.
Each ferry craft shall be equipped with such life-saving apparatus and fire-extinguishing appliances as shall be considered necessary by the Regional Engineer, Mwanza Region, or officer acting on his behalf and such apparatus and appliances shall be kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use.9.
| On a wooden pontoon | Eight tons |
| On a steel pontoon | Ten tons |
10.
Any person crossing by the ferry who—11.
The toll fees specified in the Schedule to these Regulations may be demanded by the toll collector from every person using the ferry, and it shall be lawful for the toll collector to refuse to carry any person or the cattle or vehicle of any person on the ferry unless such person shall have paid the appropriate toll fee before entering or embarking his cattle or vehicle on the ferry.12.
A toll collector shall not demand from any person more than the appropriate toll fee specified in the Schedule to these Regulations and he shall not refuse to take a passenger on the ferry except in the cases mentioned in regulations 10 and 11, or for some reasonable cause.13.
The table of toll fees shall be exhibited by the licensee in a conspicuous place on each ferry landing.14.
No person in charge of any canoe or other craft shall cause such canoe to lie alongside the ferry landings so as to cause an obstruction to the working of the ferry.15.
The Nahodha shall have sole authority to regulate the ferry service and to control the traffic thereon and every passenger shall obey all such reasonable directions as the Nahodha may think fit to give.16.
Upon giving forty-eight hours' notice of his intention to do so the licensee may, once in every two months, and for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours withdraw the pontoon from the ferry service for the purpose of dry docking.History of this document
31 July 2002 this version
Consolidation