THE WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) AMENDMENT ACT, 1988

Appendix D THE WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) AMENDMENT ACT, 1988 No. 53 OF 1988 [29th September, 1988] An Act further to amend the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. 1974 WHEREAS in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the Consuiuuon.the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 had been passed by Parliament; AND WHEREAS some administrative and practical difficulties in effectively implementing the provisions of the aforesaid Act have come to light it is considered necessary to make certain amendments thereto; AND WHEREAS, in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the constitution read with clause (2) thereof, resolutions have been passed hy the Legislative Assemblies of the States of Himachal Pradesh, and Tripura to the effect that the said Act should be amended by an Act of Parliament for the purposes hereinafter appearing. DE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Republic of India as follows: (1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 1988. It applies, in the first instance, to the whole of the States of Himachal Pradesh. and Tripura and the Union territories; and it shall apply to such other Slate which adopts this Act hy resolution passed in that behalf under clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution read with clause (2) thereof. It shall come into force, at once in the States of Himachal Pradesh and Tripura and the Union territories and in any other Statewhich adopts this Act under clause (1) of article 252 of the constitution read with clause (2) thereof on the dale of such adoption. SOlln'I' : TIv Gaulle of India, Exrraordinarv, Part It-Section I. No. 69, October 3, 1988. In section 2 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (

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