Environment Protection Act, 1986

THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT, 1986. No. 29 OF 1986, 23rd May, 1986.

An Act to provide for the protection and improvement of environment and for matters connected there with:

WHEREAS the decisions were taken at the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held at Stockholm in June, 1972, in which India participated, to take appropriate steps for the protection and improvement of human environment;

AND WHEREAS it is considered necessary further to implement the decisions aforesaid in so far as they relate to the protection and improvement of environment and the prevention of hazards to human beings, other living creatures, plants and property;

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

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Sections	Particulars
	Preamble
1	Short Title, extent and commencement
2	Definitions
3	Power of Central Government to take measures to protect and improve
4	Appointment of officers and their powers and functions
5	Power to give directions
6	Rules to regulate environmental pollution
7	Persons carrying on industry, operation, etc. not to allow emission or discharge of environmental pollutants in excess of the standards
8	Persons handling hazardous substances to comply with procedural safeguard
9	Furnishing of information to authorities and agencies in certain cases
10	Power of entry and inspection
11	Power to take sample and procedure to be followed in connection therewith
12	Environmental Laboratories
13	Government analysts
14	Reports of Government analysts
15	Penalty for contravention of the provisions of the act and the rules, orders and directions
16	Offences by companies
17	Offences by Government Departments
18	Protection of action taken in good faith
19	Cognizance of offences
20	Information, Reports or Returns
21	Members, Officers and Employees of the authority constituted under section 3 to be public servants
22	Bar of Jurisdiction
23	Power to delegate
24	Effect of other laws
25	Power to make rules
26	Rules made under this act to be laid before parliament