The Factories Act, 1948 (amended in 1987) was enacted with the object of protecting factory workers from subjecting them to unduly long hours of bodily strain or manual labor. It lays down that employees should work in healthy and sanitary conditions so far as the manufacturing will allow and that precautions should be taken for …
It is one of the many surviving colonial statutes. It was enacted to ‘consolidate the previous laws relating to forests that were passed before the 1920s, the transit of forest produce, and the duty leviable on timber and other forest produce’. The Act gave the State Government the power to create Reserved Forests, and the …
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT (1986) This act was promulgated in 1986. It is, therefore, known as the environment (Protection) Act, 1986. Objectives: The Environmental Protection Act, 1986 (EPA) was passed with the following objects: (i) It was enacted to implement the decisions which were made at the United Nation Conference on the Human Environment held at …
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Introduction The Act came into force in 1974 and is applicable to the states of Assam, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Gujrat, Haryana, Tripura, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Kerala, and the union territories. It could also be adopted by any state through a resolution passed declaring to adopt the Act. The Water (Prevention and Control) …
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This Act was promulgated in 1981. It is, therefore, known as The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981. It was amended in 1987. Objectives This Act is meant to serve the following objectives. prevention, control and abatement of air maintaining the quality of air establishment of Boards for the prevention and control of …
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