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 28: Liability of owner or Operator in certain cases.
    Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, where a vessel or aircraft is part of an Indian expedition or fishing in Antarctica but whose owner or Operator is not part of such expedition or fishing, then such owner or Operator who is sufficiently identified in the permit, either by class or other description shall also be bound by the conditions of the permit.
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