Kirumi (Mara River) Ferry Regulations, 1957

Government Notice 288 of 1957

Kirumi (Mara River) Ferry Regulations, 1957
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Tanzania
Ferries Act

Kirumi (Mara River) Ferry Regulations, 1957

Government Notice 288 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.]

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Kirumi (Mara River) Ferry Regulations, and shall apply to the public ferry known as the Kirumi (Mara River) Ferry.

2.

In these Regulations the following expressions shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them, that is to say—"administration" means the Engineer-in-Chief or the officer acting on his behalf;"collector" means the member of the crew of the pontoon appointed by the administration to collect toll fees;"toll fees" means the fees prescribed in the Schedule to these Regulations.

3.

The ferry services shall be operated daily throughout the year except when in the opinion of the administration it would be unsafe to do so, and shall make crossings of the Mara River as and when required beginning at 7 a.m. and terminating at 7 p.m.:Provided that a collector may make additional crossings outside these hours as and when directed by the administration.

4.

The ferry services shall be operated by the administration by means of pontoons attached by pulley to cables stretching from bank to bank.

5.

(1)The pontoons while under way shall at all times be under the charge and control of a collector or, if present, by the administration.
(2)All passengers and all animals, vehicles and other cargo shall be taken on or landed at the ramps provided for that purpose.

6.

The maximum load which the pontoon may carry shall be ten tons total weight inclusive of motor vehicles, loads, animals and passengers and for the purpose of these Regulations, each passenger shall be deemed to be the equivalent of one hundred and fifty pounds of load.

7.

If a passenger with intent to defraud the administration
(a)refuses to pay the prescribed toll fee; or
(b)leaves or attempts to leave the ferry without paying the prescribed toll fee,
he commits an offence under those Regulations and upon conviction is liable to pay a fine of one hundred shillings.

8.

Any person who—
(a)wilfully obstructs the collector or other person employed to work a pontoon in the execution of his duties; or
(b)behaves while on a pontoon in an insulting or indecent manner towards any member of the crew or any passenger, or commits any nuisance or uses obscene or abusive language; or
(c)boards a pontoon after being warned by the collector that it already contains its maximum load; or
(d)boards a pontoon in an unsafe or dangerous manner or causes damage to a pontoon or attachments; or
(e)boards a pontoon or uses or attempts to use a pontoon without the permission of the collector or in the absence of the collector,
commits an offence against these Regulations and is liable on conviction to a fine of one hundred shillings, and it shall be lawful for the collector, or the administration or a Police Officer forcibly to remove such person from the pontoon.

9.

A collector may refuse to allow to board a pontoon any vehicle, animal or person which, in his opinion, may endanger safety during the act of boarding or disembarking, or during carriage.

10.

The toll fees specified in the Schedule hereto shall be payable on demand to the collector and it shall be lawful for the collector to refuse to carry on any pontoon any person or animal, vehicle or other property of any person unless such person shall have paid the appropriate toll fee before embarking his animal, vehicle or other property on such pontoon.

11.

Except in the cases mentioned in regulation 8, 9 or 10, the collector may not refuse to accept any passenger or cargo of the kind specified in the Schedule.

12.

The collector shall be responsible for the regularity of the service and the control of traffic embarking thereon or disembarking therefrom, and every passenger on a pontoon shall obey all such reasonable directions as the collector may think fit to give.

13.

The administration may at any time suspend the service of the ferry for any reason which may appear to it to render this course necessary or desirable.

14.

A notice shall be exhibited in a conspicuous place on the ferry landing stating the toll fees specified in the Schedule, and the fact that an official printed and numbered fixed fee receipt must be obtained for any ferry fees paid to the collector.

Schedule

Toll fees

 Shs.Cts.
1.Passengers005
2.Loads over 50 lb005
3.Cattle and donkeys, each050
4.Sheep and goats, each005
5.Bicycles005
6.Motor bicycles and hand-carts050
7.Motor car and driver100
8.Motor omnibuses, other vehicles not included in (6) and (7)above, motor lorries with a carrying capacity not exceeding 5tons200
9.Motor lorries with a carrying capacity exceeding 5 tons300

History of this document

31 July 2002 this version
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