https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169297 A statutory port demurrage scale, once sanctioned and published, carries the force of law, so liability to pay demurrage does not depend on whether the importer caused the delay, unless the governing statute or valid scale imposes that limitation. The Court also construed "free days" narrowly, holding that the dock scale excluded only the specific days enumerated in it, such as Sundays, holidays, and days when customs duty could not be assessed or received, and not the whole period of pending import trade control formalities. Demurrage was therefore recoverable during detention, and the wider claim to free storage days was rejected. en-us Mon, 21 Mar 1977 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:20:59 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169297 A statutory port demurrage scale, once sanctioned and published, carries the force of law, so liability to pay demurrage does not depend on whether the importer caused the delay, unless the governing statute or valid scale imposes that limitation. The Court also construed "free days" narrowly, holding that the dock scale excluded only the specific days enumerated in it, such as Sundays, holidays, and days when customs duty could not be assessed or received, and not the whole period of pending import trade control formalities. Demurrage was therefore recoverable during detention, and the wider claim to free storage days was rejected. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 21 Mar 1977 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169297