Section 10
Permit for introducing microscopic organisms.
The Indian Antarctic Act, 2022
About this Act
An Act to provide for the national measures for protecting the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems and to give effect to the Antarctic Treaty, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources and to the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
No person shall introduce into any part of
Antarctica any microscopic organism of a species which is not indigenous to Antarctica, except in
accordance with a permit or the written authorisation of another Party to the Protocol.