Act Number: 6

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

Year: 1974

Enactment Date: 1974-03-23

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Department:

Section 26: Provision regarding existing discharge of sewage or trade effluent.
    Where immediately before the commencement of this Act any person was discharging any sewage or trade effluent into a 1 [stream or well or sewer or on land], the provisions of section 25 shall, so far as may be, apply in relation to such person as they apply in relation to the person referred to in that section subject to the modification that the application for consent to be made under sub-section (2) of that section 2 [shall be made on or before such date as may be specified by the State Government by notification in this behalf in the Official Gazette].
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 44 of 1978, s. 13, for "stream or well" (w.e.f. 12-12-1978).
2. Subs. by s. 13, ibid., for certain words (w.e.f. 12-12-1978).
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