Act Number: 14

Act Name: The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

Year: 1981

Enactment Date: 1981-03-29

Long Title: An Act to provide for the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution, for the establishment, with a view to carrying out the aforesaid purposes, of Boards, for conferring on and assigning to such Boards powers and functions relating thereto and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Department:

Section 43: Cognizance of offences.
    1 [43. Cognizance of offences.--(1) No court shall take cognizance of any offence under this Act except on a complaint made by--
         (a) a Board or any officer authorised in this behalf by it; or
         (b) any person who has given notice of not less than sixty days, in the manner prescribed, of the alleged offence and of his intention to make a complaint to the Board or officer authorised as aforesaid,
and no court inferior to that of a Metropolitan Magistrate or a Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence punishable under this Act.
     (2) Where a complaint has been made under clause (b) of sub-section (1), the Board shall, on demand by such person, make available the relevant reports in its possession to that person:
     Provided that the Board may refuse to make any such report available to such person if the same is, in its opinion, against the public interest.]
Notes:
1 Subs. by Act 47 of 1987, s. 21, for section 43 (w.e.f. 1-4-1988).
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