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

WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) ACT, 1974
[Act No. 6 of Year 1974]

This document is available at www.ielrc.org/content/e7402.pdf

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

WHEREAS it is expedient 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 and for conferring on and assigning to such Boards powers and functions relating thereto;

AND WHEREAS Parliament has no power to make laws for the States with respect to any of the matters aforesaid except as provided in articles 249 and 250 of the Constitution;

AND WHEREAS in pursuance of clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution resolutions have been passed by all the Houses of the Legislatures of the States of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Tripura and West Bengal to the effect that the matters aforesaid should be regulated in those States by Parliament by law;Be it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows: -

CHAPTER I

PRELIMINARY

1. Short title, application and commencement

 

(1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.

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