India to Do Away with Obsolete Shipping Rules
By Aiswarya Lakshmi
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
India's Ministry of Shipping has decided to rescind thirteen rules under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (as amended), having found them to be obsolete and unnecessary.
This in turn will declutter the legislative framework governing merchant shipping sector in India and streamline the processes and procedures in the shipping sector.
“The Ministry of Shipping has decided to rescind thirteen rules under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (as amended), having found them to be obsolete and unnecessary,” an official statement said.
Thirteen separate notifications for rescinding the above rules have been sent for publication in the Gazette of India Extraordinary.
Meanwhile, the quashing of these rules is expected to de-clutter the legislative framework governing merchant shipping sector in India and streamline the processes and procedures in the shipping sector while at the same time promoting ‘ease-of-doing-business’ in India.
The Prime Minister had also stressed on the need to identify and do away with such archaic rules and procedures", the statement said. In line with this intention, the Ministry of Shipping had set up committees to identify obsolete rules and regulations with a view to achieve process simplification, it added. Based on the committee's recommendations, the Ministry has decided to weed out these rules.