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Environment Protection Act, 1986 Chapter 3

Title: Prevention, Control and Abatement of Environmental Pollution

State: Central

Year: 1986

.....shall he bound to prevent or mitigate the environmental pollution caused as a result of such discharge and shall also forthwith-- (a) intimate the fact of such occurrence or apprehension of such occurrence; and (b) be bound, if called upon, to render all assistance, to such authorities or agencies as may be prescribed. (2) On receipt of information with respect to the fact or apprehension of any occurrence of the nature referred to in sub-section (1), whether through intimation under that sub-section or otherwise, the authorities or agencies referred to in sub-section (1) shall, as early as practicable, cause such remedial measures to be taken as are necessary to prevent or mitigate the environmental pollution. (3) The expenses, if any, incurred by any authority or agency with respect to the remedial measures referred to in sub-section (2), together with interest (at such reasonable rate as the Government may, by order, fix) from the date when a demand for the expenses is made until it is paid, may be recovered by such authority or agency from the person concerned as arrears of land revenue or of public demand. Section 10 - Powers of entry and inspection (1) Subject.....

Environment Protection Act, 1986 Section 12

Title: Environmental Laboratories

State: Central

Year: 1986

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,-- (a) establish one or more environmental laboratories; (b) recognise one or more laboratories or institutes as environmental laboratories to carry out the functions entrusted to an environmental laboratory under this Act. (2) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules specifying-- (a) the functions of the environmental laboratory; (b) the procedure for the submission to the said laboratory of samples of air, water, soil or other substance for analysis or tests, the form of the laboratory report thereon and the fees payable for such report; (c) such other matters as may be necessary or expedient to enable that laboratory to carry out its functions.

Employment of Manual Scavengers Act 1993 Section 10

Title: Power of Executive Authority to Prevent Environmental

State: Central

Year: 1993

.....contravention of the provisions of section 3, whether through intimation by some person or on a report of the inspector or otherwise, the Executive Authority shall, as early as practicable, besides taking any other action under this Act, direct the owner or occupier of the premises to take such remedial measures, as may be necessary, within such reasonable time as any be specified therein and in case the owner or occupier, as the case may be, fails to comply with such directions, cause such remedial measures to be taken as are necessary to prevent or mitigate the environmental pollution at the cost of such owner or occupier of the premises.Power of Executive Authority to prevent environmental.pollution in certain cases. (2) The expenses, if any, incurred by the Executive Authority with respect to the remedial measures referred to in sub-section (1), together with interest at such rate as the State Government may specify from the date when a demand for the expenses is made until it is paid, may be recovered by such authority or agency from the person concerned as arrears of land revenue or of public demand.

Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 Section 7A

Title: Establishment of Environmental Relief Fund

State: Central

Year: 1991

1[7A. Establishment of Environmental Relief Fund (1) The Central Government may, by notification, establish a fund to be known as the Environmental Relief Fund. (2) The Relief Fund shall be utilised for paying, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the scheme made under sub-section (3), relief under the award made by the Collector under section 7. (3) The Central Government may, by notification, make a scheme specifying the authority in which the Relief Fund shall vest, the manner in which the Relief Fund shall be administered, the form and the manner in which money shall be drawn from the Relief Fund and for all other matters connected with or incidental to the administration of the Relief Fund and the payment of relief therefrom.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 11 of 1992, section 5, (w.r.e.f. 31.1.1992)

Environment Protection Act, 1986 Section 6

Title: Rules to Regulate Environmental Pollution

State: Central

Year: 1986

(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules in respect of all or any of the matters referred to in section 3. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-- (a) the standards of quality of air, water or soil for various areas and purposes; (b) the maximum allowable limits of concentration of various environmental pollutants (including noise) for different areas; (c) the procedures and safeguards for the handling of hazardous substances; (d) the prohibition and restrictions on the handling of hazardous substances in different areas; (e) the prohibition and restrictions on the location of industries and the carrying on of processes and operations in different areas; (f) the procedures and safeguards for the prevention of accidents which may cause environmental pollution and for providing for remedial measures for such accidents.

Environment Protection Act, 1986 Section 7

Title: Persons Carrying on Industry, Operation, Etc., Not to Allow Emission or Discharge of Environmental Pollutants in Excess of the Standards

State: Central

Year: 1986

No person carrying on any industry, operation or process shall discharge or emit or permit to be discharged or emitted any environmental pollutant in excess of such standards as may be prescribed.

The Jharkhand Municipal Act, 2011 Complete Act

State: Jharkhand

Year: 2011

.....Government in relation to a Municipal Council, or the Nagar Panchayat, the Executive Officer of the Municipal Council or the Nagar Panchayat; (47) "Factory" means a factory as defined in the Factories Act, 1948; (48) "Filth" means (a) night soil or other contents of latrines, cesspools and drains; (b) dirt, dung, refuse, useless or offensive materials thrown out in consequence of any process of manufacture, industry or trade; and (c) putrid or putrifying substance, (49) "Finance Commission" means the State Finance Commission constituted under Article 243-I of the Constitution of India and referred to in section 97 of this Act; (50) "Food" includes every article used for food or drink by man, other than drugs or water, and any article which ordinarily enters into, or is used in the composition or preparation of, human food, and also includes confectionery, flavouring and colouring matters, spices and condiments; (51) "Footpath" means a pavement, for use by pedestrians; (52) "Goods" include animals; (53) "Government" means the State Government of Jharkhand; (54) "Holding" means land held under one title or agreement and surrounded by one set of boundaries: Provided that, where two.....

West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 1993

.....milk- shop or other place (a) from which milk is supplied on, or for, sale, or (b) in which milk is kept for the purposes of sale or used for manufacture or preparation for sale of (i) butter, or (ii) ghee, or (iii) cheese, or (iv) curds, or (v) dried, sterilized, condensed or toned milk, but does not include (a) a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption of the premises only, or (b) a shop or other place from which milk is sold or supplied in hermetically closed and unopened receptacles in the same original condition in which it was first received in such shop or other place; (14) "dairyman" includes any occupier of a dairy, or any cow-keeper who trades in milk, or any wholesale or retail seller of milk; (15) "dangerous disease" means (a) cholera, plague, small-pox, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, leprosy, influenza, encephalitis, poliomyelitis and syphilis; and (b) any other epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease which the State Government may, by notification, declare to be a dangerous disease for the purposes of this Act; 44. Clause (15A) ins, by W.B. Act 45 of 1994. (15A) "District Magistrate" means the District Magistrate.....

The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 Complete Act

State: Tripura

Year: 1986

.....pollution" means the presence in the environment of any environmental pollutant; (d) "handling", in relation to any substance, means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer or the like of such substance; Tripura State Pollution Control Board 3 (e) "hazardous substance" means any substance or preparation which, by reason of its chemical or physico-chemical properties or handling, is liable to clause harm to human beings, other living creatures, plant, micro-organism, property or the environment: (f) "occupier", in relation to any factory or premises, means a person who has control over the affairs of the factory or the premises and includes in relation to any substance, the person in possession of the substance; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act. CHAPTER 2 GENERAL POWERS OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT 3. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government, shall have the power to take all such measures as it deems necessary or expedient for the purpose of protecting and improving the quality of the environment and.....

Environment Protection Act, 1986 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1986

.....pollution" means the presence in the environment of any Environmental pollutant; (d) "handing", in relation to any substance, means the manufacture, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use, collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale, transfer of the like of such substance; (e) "hazardous substance" means any substance or preparation which, by reason of its chemical or physico-chemical properties or handling, is liable to cause harm to human beings, other living creatures, plants, micro- organism, property or the environment; (f) "occupier", in relation to any factory or premises, means a person who has control over the affairs of the factory or the premises and includes, in relation to any substance, the person in possession of the Substance; (g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act. SECTION 03: POWER OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT AND IMPROVE ENVIRONMENT (1) Subject to the provision of this Act, the Central Government shall have the power to take all such measures as it deems necessary or expedient for the purpose of protecting and improving the quality of the environment and preventing,.....