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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Complete Act

Title: Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003

State: Central

Year: 2003

Preamble1 - WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) CESS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 Section1 - Short title and commencement Section2 - Amendment of section 2 Section3 - Substitution of certain expression Section4 - Substitution of new section for section 16 Section5 - Omission of Schedule I Section6 - Substitution of new Schedule for Schedule II

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Preamble 1

Title: Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003

State: Central

Year: 2003

THE WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) CESS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [Act, No. 19 of 2003] [13th March, 2003] PREAMBLE An Act further to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:--

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 1

Title: Short Title and Commencement

State: Central

Year: 2003

(1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003. (2) It shall come into force on such date1as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. _____________________________ 1. Date appointed is 06.05.2003 by Notification No. SO 498(E) Dated 06.05.2003

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 2

Title: Amendment of Section 2

State: Central

Year: 2003

In the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977(36 of 1977) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 2, for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-- '(c) "industry" includes any operation or process, or treatment and disposal system, which consumes water or gives rise to sewage effluent or trade effluent, but does not include any hydel power unit;'.

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 3

Title: Substitution of Certain Expression

State: Central

Year: 2003

In the principal Act, for the words "specified industry", wherever they occur, the word "industry" shall be substituted.

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 4

Title: Substitution of New Section for Section 16

State: Central

Year: 2003

For section 16 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely:-- "16. Power of Central Government to exempt the levy of water cess.-- (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 3, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt any industry, consuming water below the quantity specified in the notification, from the levy of water cess. (2) In exempting an industry under sub-section (1), the Central Government shall take into consideration-- (a) the nature of raw material used; (b) the nature of manufacturing process employed; (c) the nature of effluent generated; (d) the source of water extraction; (e) the nature of effluent receiving bodies; and (f) the production data, including water consumption per unit production, in the industry and the location of the industry.".

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 5

Title: Omission of Schedule I

State: Central

Year: 2003

Schedule I to the principal Act shall be omitted.

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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 6

Title: Substitution of New Schedule for Schedule Ii

State: Central

Year: 2003

For Schedule II to the principal Act, the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:-- "SCHEDULE II (See section 3) Purpose for which water is consumed Maximum rate under sub-section (2) of section 3 Maximum rate under sub-section (2A) of section 3 (1) (2) (3) 1. Industrial cooling, spraying in mine pits or boiler feeds Five paise per kilolitre Ten paise per kilolitre. 2. Domestic purpose Two paise per kilolitre Three paise per kilolitre. 3. Processing whereby water gets polluted and the pollutants are -- Ten paise per kilolitre Twenty paise per kilolitre. (i) easily biodegradable; or (ii) non-toxic; or (iii) both non-toxic and easily biodegradable 4. Processing whereby water gets polluted and the pollutants are -- (i) not easily biodegradable; or (ii) toxic; or (iii) both toxic and not easily biodegradable Fifteen paise per kilolitre Thirty paise per kilolitre.".

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Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2003 Section 3

Title: Validation of Action Taken Under Clauses 4 and 5 of the Sugar (Control) Order, 1966

State: Central

Year: 2003

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any judgment, decree or order of any court or other authority or any agreement, any action taken or anything done or omitted to be done or purported to have been taken or done or omitted to be done under any direction or order issued by the Central Government under clause 4 or clause 5 of the Sugar (Control) Order, 1966, made under section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (10 of 1955), at any time during the period commencing on and from the 14th day of June. 1999 till the day on which the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2003 receives the assent of the President, shall be deemed to be, and deemed always to have been, for all purposes, as validly and effectively taken or done or omitted to be done under sub-section (3D) or subsection (3E), as the case may be, of section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, as if the said sub-sections had been in force at all material times. (2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that no act or omission on the part of any person shall be punishable as an offence which would have not been so punishable if this Act had not come into force.

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Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 Section 2

Title: Declaration as to Expediency of Control by the Union

State: Central

Year: 2003

It is hereby declared that it is expedient in the public interest that the Union should take under its control the tobacco industry.

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