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Tanzania
Ferries Act
Pangani Ferry Regulations, 1957
Government Notice 207 of 1957
- 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 Pangani Ferry Regulations.2.
In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—"administration" means the District Commissioner, Pangani, or the officer acting on his behalf;"collector" means the person appointed by the licensee to collect toll fees but he shall not be a member of the crew of the ferry;"ferry" means the Pangani Ferry and includes craft used in carrying on the ferry services;"licensee" means the holder of a licence under the Ferries Act 1 in respect of the Pangani Public Ferry;"toll fees" means the fees set out in the schedule to these Regulations;"Nahodha" means any person appointed from time to time by the licensee to be in charge of the ferry.3.
The ferry shall be managed and carried on by the licensee by means of a pontoon propelled by a launch.4.
The ferry service shall be efficiently maintained daily throughout the year and shall make crossings of the Pangani River as and when required beginning at 7 a.m. and terminating at 7 p.m. and at such other times as the licensee may decide, except during the hours of darkness, provided that in case of emergency and with the permission of the administration the ferry may be used during the hours of darkness.5.
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All passengers and all animals, vehicles and other cargo shall be taken on or landed at the ramps provided for that purpose.7.
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Each ferry craft shall be equipped with such life saving apparatus and fire extinguishing appliances as shall be considered necessary by the administration, and such apparatus and appliances shall be kept so as to be at all times fit and ready for use.9.
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If a passenger, with intent to defraud, boards or attempts to board the ferry without paying the prescribed toll fee, he commits an offence under these Regulations and upon conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred shillings.11.
Any person who—12.
Any person who uses or attempts to use the ferry without the permission of the Nahodha or in the absence of the Nahodha or, save as provided by regulation 4 hereof, during the hours of darkness commits an offence under these Regulations and is liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand shillings.13.
The Nahodha may refuse to allow on board the craft any vehicle, animal or person which, in his opinion, may endanger safety during the act of boarding or disembarking or during carriage.14.
The prescribed toll fees shall be payable before embarkation to the collector, and it shall be lawful for the Nahodha to refuse to carry on the ferry any person or animal, vehicle or other property of any person unless such person shall have paid the appropriate toll fee to the collector before embarking his animal, vehicle or other property on the ferry.15.
The Nahodha may require any person in charge of a vehicle to remove from such vehicle any articles which are being carried in or upon or which are attached to such vehicle, before such vehicle is driven on to the ferry and any such person who having failed to observe such requirements drives or causes or permits to be driven any such vehicle aboard the ferry commits an offence under these Regulations and is liable upon conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred shillings.16.
Except in the cases mentioned in regulations 11, 12, 13 and 14, the Nahodha may not refuse to accept any passenger or cargo of the kind specified in the Schedule.17.
The Nahodha shall be responsible for the regularity of the service and the control of traffic embarking therein or disembarking therefrom, and every passenger on the ferry shall obey all such reasonable directions as the Nahodha may think fit to give.18.
The administration may at any time suspend the service of the ferry for any reason which may appear to render this course necessary and desirable.19.
Upon giving at least forty-eight hours' notice, the licensee may, once in every two months, and for a period not exceeding forty-eight hours withdraw the craft from the ferry service for the purpose of servicing or repair.20.
The toll fees specified in the Schedule shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place on both the ferry landings.History of this document
31 July 2002 this version
Consolidation