The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. 1974 

The aims and objectives of this act are:
(a)Prevention and control of water pollution(b)Maintaining or restoring the wholesomeness of water(c)Establishment of boards of the prevention and control of water pollution.

 This an Act to provide for the prevention and control of water pollution and the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water, for the establishment, with a view to carrying out the purposes aforesaid, of Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution, for conferring on and assigning to such Boards powers and functions relating thereto and for matters connected therewith. 

It applies in the first instance to the whole of the States of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura and West Bengal and the Union Territories; and it shall apply to such other State which adopts this Act by resolution passed in that behalf under clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution. 

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

 

1. SHORT TITLE, APPLICATION AND COMMENCEMENT. 

Thia act gives definitions of followings in this chapter :--

"Board" means the Central Board or a State Board;

 

 "Central Board" means the Central Pollution Control Board Constituted under section 3;]

 

(c) "member" means a member of a Board and includes the chairman thereof;

 

[(d) "occupier", in relation to any factory or premises, means the person who has control over the affairs of the factory or the premises, and includes, in relation to any substance, the person in possession of the substance;]

 

 [3][(dd) "outlet" includes any conduit pipe or channel, open or closed carrying sewage or trade effluent or any other holding arrangement which causes or is likely to cause, pollution;]

 

(e) "pollution" means such contamination of water or such alteration of the physical, chemical or biological properties of water or such discharge of any sewage or trade effluent or of any other liquid, gaseous or solid substance into water (whether directly or indirectly) as may, or is likely to, create a nuisance or render such water harmful or injurious to public health or safety, or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural or other legitimate uses, or to the life and health of animals or plants or of aquatic organisms;

 

(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the Central Government or, as the case may be, the State Government;

 

(g) "sewage effluent" means affluent from any sewerage system or sewage disposal works and includes sullage from open drains;

 


(gg) "sewer" means any conduit pipe or channel, open or closed, carrying sewage or trade effluent;]

 

(h) "State Board" means a State Pollution Control Board constituted under section 4

 

(i) "State Government" in relation to a Union territory means the Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;

One very important definition is 

"trade effluent" includes any liquid, gaseous or solid substance which is discharged from any premises used for carrying on any Industry, operation or process, or treatment and disposal system], other than domestic sewage.

 

CHAPTER II

THE CENTRAL AND STATE BOARDS FOR PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF WATER POLLUTION

This chapter describes about constitution of Cental and state pollution control Boards to exercise the powers conferred on and perform the functions assigned to that Board under this Act. 

CHAPTER III


DEALS WITH THE CONSTITUTION OF JOINT BOARDS.

 

by the Central Government (in respect of one or more Union territories) and one or more Government of State Government contiguous to such Union territory or Union territories, to be in force for such period and to be subject to renewal for such further period if any, as may be specified in the agreement to provide for the constitution of a Joint Board.

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