THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT; 1986 — THE AIR (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) ACT, 1981

THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT; 1986 MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT & FORESTS DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT; FORESTS & WILDLIFE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI The Environment (Protection) Act; 1986 No. 39OF 1986 (23rd May, [986} An Actto Provide for the Prolectjon snd [mproverncnt of Earirontatnt and for Mjatfcrs ( onnected therewith. WAKKGAs dcvisiuns WCIC lakru 4l Lhe Uuilet Netious Cunfercuce on the Human Euvirotment beld at Slockholm in Juve: 1972, in which /ndia participated, lo takc #Pproprizlc steps fr (he prolcction 4nd impruvemeut ofhuman cuviroDmenl; AND WHEREAS iL is considered necessary further t0 implement the dccisions alorrsaid in 90 far as thcy rclate to the protcction ad imnprovcment of covironment and the prevention Vf hazards to human beings, = alher living creatures;plants and property; BP it cnacted by Perliarent jn Lhc Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India &s follows: CHAPTER I PRELMMINARY 1 T1) This Act may be called the Environmcnt (Protection) Act, Short 86. title: ex- tent and (2) Itextendg 0 Ihe whole of Iodia com- Central nience- (3) It shall come into forcc OD such date 35 the ment; Government Inay, by notification in the Official Oazette: appoint and dilicrent dates mwy bc appointed for diffcrcnt provirionx oC this Act and For different afeas. THE ENVIEA)NMENT (PROTEC TION} ACT, [ 6 Dcfini: aons 2. Iu lhis Act,unless the context Olherwise requires: environmcnt includes water; air and land and the inter- rclationship which exists among and belween water, air and land, and human beings, Oher livinge creatures, plauts. micro- organism and property; (6) environmenlal poilutant" means any solid. liquid or ga - seous substance prexent in such concentrativn as mnay bc. or tend to be. injuriousto environmenl; {c) "cnxirormental polluticn' Bcans the pr