Rules addressing some environmental problems — Bio-Medical Waste Rules 2016 Hazardous wastes Rules 1989 Noise Pollution Rules 2000

Think of what leaves a hospital in Navi Mumbai each day: used syringes, dressings, discarded medicines. Think of the noise of a loudspeaker at a festival or the smoke of a factory chimney. None of these is dealt with by a long section in a big Act. They are dealt with by rules, short and technical, made by the Central Government under the Environment (Protection) Act 1986. To answer a question on them you must know where the power to make rules comes from, what the rules typically demand, and what happens when someone breaks them.

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The Bio-Medical Waste Rules 2016, the Hazardous Wastes Rules 1989, the Noise Pollution Rules 2000, the Ozone Depleting Substances Rules 2014 and the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 are subordinate legislation: they draw their force from the Environment (Protection) Act 1986, whose ss.3, 6, 8 and 25 give the power to make them and whose ss.14A, 15 and 15C to 15D supply the penalties and appeals.

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