Act Number: 13

Act Name: The Indian Antarctic Act, 2022

Year: 2022

Enactment Date: 2022-08-06

Long Title: 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.

Ministry: Ministry of Earth Sciences

Department:

Section 10: Permit for introducing microscopic organisms.
    No person shall introduce into any part of Antarctica any microscopic organism of a species which is not indigenous to Antarctica, except in accordance with a permit or the written authorisation of another Party to the Protocol.
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