Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 26 : Rules made under this Act to be laid before Parliament : Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 25 : Power to make rules : (1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act. (2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 24 : Effect of other laws : (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the provisions of this Act and the rules or orders made therein shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any enactment other than…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 23 : Power to delegate : Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (3) of section 3, the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, delegate, subject to such conditions and limitations as may be specified in the…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 22 : Bar of jurisdiction : No Civil Court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any suit or proceeding in respect of anything done, action taken or order or direction issued by the Central Government or any other authority or officer…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 21 : Members, officers and employees of the authority, constituted under section 3 to be public servants : All the members of the authority, constituted, if any, under section 3 and all officers and other employees of such authority when…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 20 : Information, reports or returns : The Central Government may, in relation to its functions under this Act, from time to time, require any person, officer, State Government or other authority to furnish to it or any prescribed authority…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 19 : Cognizance of offences : No Court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except on a complaint made by (a) the Central Government or any authority or officer authorised in this behalf by that Government; or…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Chapter IV : Miscellaneous : Section 18 : Protection of action taken in good faith : No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against the Government or any officer or other employee of the Government or any authority constituted…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 17 : Offences by Government Departments : (1) Where an offence under this Act has been committed by any Department of Government, the Head of the Department shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 16 : Offences by companies : (1) Where any offence under this Act has been committed by a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed, was directly in charge of, and was responsible to, the company…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 15 : Penalty for contravention of the provisions of the Act and the rules, orders and directions : (1) Whoever fails to comply with or contravenes any of the provisions of this Act, or the rules made or orders or…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 14 : Reports of Government Analysts : Any document purporting to be a report signed by a Government Analysts may be used as evidence of the facts stated therein in any proceeding under this Act.
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 13 : Government Analysts : The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint or recognise such persons as it thinks fit and having the prescribed qualifications to be Government Analysts for the purpose of analysis of samples…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 12 : Environmental laboratories : (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…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 11 : Power to take sample and procedure to be followed in connection therewith : (1) The Central Government or any officer empowered by it in this behalf, shall have power to take, for the purpose of analysis, samples of…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 10 : Powers of entry and inspection : (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, any person empowered by the Central Government in this behalf shall have a right to enter, at all reasonable times with such assistance as…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 9 : Furnishing of information to authorities and agencies in certain cases : (1) Where the discharge of any environmental pollutant in excess of the prescribed standards occurs or is apprehended to occur due to any accident or other unforeseen…
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Section 8 : Persons handling hazardous substances to comply with procedural safeguards : No person shall handle or cause to be handled any hazardous substance except in accordance with such procedure and after complying with such safeguards as may be prescribed.
Environment (Protection) Act 1986 Chapter III : Prevention, Control And Abatement Of Environmental Pollution : Section 7 : Persons carrying on industry, operation, etc., not to allow emission or discharge of environmental pollutants in excess of the standards : No person carrying on any industry,…