THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT, 1986
An Act to provide for the protection and improvement of environment and for
matters connected there with:
WHEREAS the decisions were taken at the United Nations Conference on the
Human Environment held at Stockholm in June, 1972, in which India participated, to take
appropriate steps for the protection and improvement of human environment;
AND WHEREAS it is considered necessary further to implement the decisions
aforesaid in so far as they relate to the protection and improvement of environment and
the prevention of hazards to human beings, other living creatures, plants and property;
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-seventh Year of the Republic of India
as follows:-
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