Environmental Protection Act Amendments in Punjab 2012
The Punjab Environmental Protection Act Amendments of 2012 introduced key provisions such as the establishment of Provincial sustainable development funds, wildlife conservation, environmental tribunals, and promotion of public awareness. The Act empowers authorities to inspect places suspected of environmental offences, prohibits the import of hazardous substances, and mandates compliance with National Environmental Quality Standards. Non-compliance can result in imprisonment, factory closure, and confiscation of assets.
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Punjab Environmental Protection (Amendment) Act, 2012 Salient features
Before it was Pakistan Environmental Protection Act, 1997. This act provides the establishment of Provincial sustainable development funds; protection and conservation of wildlife; habitat, and biodiversity; establishment of environmental tribunals, initial environment examination; environmental impact assessment, and promotion of public education and awareness of environmental issues through mass media. Number of actions were taken which include National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQs) for municipal and liquid industrial effluents and industrial gaseous emissions, motor vehicle exhaust and noise.
On the search warrant issued by the environmental magistrate, the authority under this act can enter and inspect at any reasonable time, any land, building, premises, vehicle, vessel or other places where or in which, there are reasonable ground to believe that an offence under this act has been or being committed. No person may import hazardous substance of which chemical activity is toxic, explosive, flammable, corrosive, radioactive, cause directly or in combination with other matters, an adverse environmental effect.
To ensure compliance with the NEQs, the EPA has been empowered to direct that pollution control devices be installed in motor vehicles or fuels specified by EPA be used in them or specified maintenance or testing be carried out on them. Sentence is the imprisonment for a term which may extend up to two years; order the closure of the factory; confiscation of the factory, machinery and equipment, vehicle, material or substance, record or document, or other object used or involved in contravention of the provision of this act.
