Section 71B: Port to be pollution free, etc

71B. Port to be pollution free, etc.— (1) The Authority shall be responsible for maintaining the marine environments of the port’s limits in order to ensure that the sea, land, an air is free from pollution. (2) No Owner, Agent or Master of a vessel, or any industry, manufacturing establishment, mill, factory or any kind, cargo handling company, terminal operator, etc., shall discharge any solid or liquid waste, oily, noxious radioactive and hazardous substances, bilge discharges, residues and mixtures containing noxious solid and liquid wastes, de­blasting of un­washed cargo tanks and line washing, garbage, emission of any effluent or waste or air pollution or noise in any amount concentration or level in excess of the National Environmental Quality Standards, or standards, which may be specified, from time to time, by the Authority for Port limits. (3) Any person contravening the provisions of sub­section (2) shall be liable to penalty as determined and notified by the authority from time to time for each contravention in addition to the charges for cleaning of the Port and removal of pollution therefrom.

Effective date: 1973-01-01

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