Section 38
Committee to ensure compliance of international obligations.
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.
(1) The Committee shall
ensure compliance of any activity undertaken in the Antarctic environment and dependent and
associated ecosystems by the permit holder, including compliance of such International Conventions
or Treaty or Protocol or such other international obligations, as may be prescribed.
(2) The permit holder shall maintain records of all waste and sewages, including all introductions and discharges into the marine environment caused by operation of vessels as part of the activity and the said records shall be submitted to the Director General appointed under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958) and the Committee, whenever required
(2) The permit holder shall maintain records of all waste and sewages, including all introductions and discharges into the marine environment caused by operation of vessels as part of the activity and the said records shall be submitted to the Director General appointed under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 (44 of 1958) and the Committee, whenever required