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 10: Interest payable for delay in payment of cess.
    If any person carrying on any 1 [industry] or any local authority fails to pay any amount of cess payable under section 3 to the State Government within the date specified in the order of assessment made under section 6 such person or local authority, as the case may be, shall be liable to pay 2 [interest on the amount to be paid at the rate of two per cent. for every month or part of a month comprised in the period from the date on which such payment is due till such amount is actually paid].
Notes:
1 Subs. by Act 19 of 2003, s. 3, for "specified industry" (w.e.f. 6-5-2003).
2 Subs. by s. 6, ibid., for certain words (w.e.f. 26-1-1992).
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