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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.]
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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.
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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—8.
Any person who—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.History of this document
31 July 2002 this version
Consolidation