Act Number: 36

Act Name: The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977

Year: 1977

Enactment Date: 1977-12-07

Long Title: An Act to provide for the levy and collection of a cess on water consumed by persons carrying on certain industries and by local authorities, with a view to augment the resources of the Central Board and the State Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution constituted under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.

Ministry: Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

Department:

Section 2: Definitions.
    In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
         (a) "local authority" means a municipal corporation or a municipal council (by whatever name called) or a cantonment board or any other body, entrusted with the duty of supplying water under the law by or under which it is constituted;
         (b) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;
         1 [(c) "industry" includes any operation or process, or treatment and disposal system, which consumes water or gives rise to sewage effluent or trade effluent, but does not include any hydel power unit;]
         (d) words and expressions used but not defined in this Act and defined in the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974) shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that Act.
Notes:
1 Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, s. 2, for clause (c) (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
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