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CHAPTER IV PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION

Section 22: Persons carrying on industry, etc., not to allow emission of air pollutants in excess of the standard laid down by State Board

The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

No person 1**** operating any industrial plant, in any air pollution control area shall discharge or cause or permit to be discharged the emission of any air pollutant in excess of the standards laid down by the State Board under clause (g) of sub-section (1) of section 17.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The words “carrying on any industry specified in the Schedule or” omitted by Act 47 of 1987, s. 10 (w.e.f. 1-4-1988).

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