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Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1974

.....constituted under section 3-;] (c) "member" means a member of a Board and includes the chairman thereof; 3 [(d) "occupier", in relation to any factory or premises, means the 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;] 4 (dd) "outlet" includes any conduit pipe or channel, open or closed, carrying sewage or trade effluent or any other holding arrangement which causes, or is likely to cause, pollution;] (e) "pollution" means such contamination of water or such alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of water or such discharge of any sewage or trade effluent or of any other liquid, gaseous or solid substance into water (whether directly or indirectly) as may, or is likely to, create a nuisance or render such water harmful or injurious to public health or safety, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural or other legitimate uses, or to the life and health of animals or plants or of acquatic organisms; (f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the Central Government or, as the case may be, the State.....