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Air pollutant
Air pollutant, 'air pollutant' means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance including noise present in the atmosphere in such concentration as may be or tend to be injurious to human beings or other living creatures or plants or property or environment. [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (14 of 1981) s. 2(a)]...
Air pollution
Air pollution, means the presence in the atmosphere of any air pollutant. [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (14 of 1981), s. 2 (b)]...
low polluting
producing little pollution especially air pollution as a low polluting electric car...
Chimney
Chimney. Ss. 30, 31 of the (English) Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), which are applied to all urban districts by s. 171 of the Public Health Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), impose penalties (up to 5l. and 10s. respectively) on any person wilfully setting a chimney on fire, or an occupier allowing a chimney to be on fire-the latter penalty not to be incurred if the occupier prove that the fire was in nowise owing to omission, neglect, or carelessness of himself or his servant.Minute rules for the construction of chimneys in London are laid down by the London Building Act, 1930 (21 Geo. 5, c. clviii.), ss. 69 to 72. Elsewhere, see (English) Public health Act, 1875, s. 157, as amended by the (English) Public health Act, 1936. The funnel of a steam-tug is a chimney, Tough v. Hopkins, 1904 (1) KB 804.Includes any structure with an opening or outlet from or through which any air pollutant may be emitted. [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (14 of 1981),...
Control equipment
Control equipment, means any apparatus, device, equipment or system to control the quality and manner of emission of any air pollutant and includes any device used for securing the efficient operation of any industrial plant. [The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (14 of 1981), s. 2 (i)]...
Industrial plant
Industrial plant, means any plant used for any industrial or trade purposes and emitting anyair pollutant into the atmosphere. [Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (14 of 1981), s. 2(k)]...
Chemical
Chemical, The expression 'chemical' means, according to Collins English Dictionary, and substance used in or resulting from a reaction involving changes to atoms or molecules or used in chemistry. The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 6th edn. page 170 defines 'chemical' as made by, or relating to, chemistry. Broadly and literally it can be said that the rayon grade pulp is neither chemical industry nor textile industry nor paper industry, Member Secy. A.P. Board for Water Pollution Control v. Andhra Pradesh Rayons Ltd., 1988 Supp (3) SCR 380: (1989) 1 SCC 44: AIR 1989 SC 611 (615). [Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act (36 of 1977), s. 2(c), 3, Sch. I]...
Occupier
Occupier, includes, --(i) any person who for the time being is paying or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable.(ii) an owner in occupation of or otherwise using his land or building.(iii) a rent-free tenant of any land or building, and(iv) any person who is liable to pay to the owner damages for the use and occupation of any land or building. [The Maharashtra Non-Biodegradable Garbage (Control) Act, 2006, s. 2(i)]Means a person who occupies a site or building within a zone and including his successors and assignees. [The Rajasthan Special Economic Zones Development Act, 2003, s. 2(h)]Occupier, of a jute-mill means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the jute-mill. [The West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(25)]The person residing in or upon or having a right to reside in or upon any house, land, or place; formerly rateable to the poor rate under the Poor Rel...
Vegetable product
Vegetable product, means product of or made of or out of vegetables, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, AIR 1992 SC 228.Vegetable product, must be construed neither in a technical sense nor from the botanical point of view. It should be understood as understood in common parlance. 'Vegetable products' are not defined in the Act, but is a phrase of every day use and so must be construed in its popular sense, if the popular sense meaning is given to vegetable products, it is impossible to say that latex is a vegetable product, Harrisons Malayalam Limited v. Kerala State Pollution Control Board, AIR 1992 Ker 168; See also Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977, Sch. I, Item 15....
Prathista
Prathista, means consecration, Rama Rao v. Venkata Ratnam, AIR 1947 PC 88: 230 IC 438: 1947 All LJ 365: 1947 All WR (PC) 25: 1947 Mad LJ 400: (1947) Mad WN 240 (PC).Consecration or setting up of an image, or a temple a ceremony performed on the completion of a house before it is inhabited; also, purification or re-consecration of an idol, house, or temple that has been polluted, Kapalavayi Kasi Raa Rao v. Kotta Venkataratnam, AIR 1947 PC 88....
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