AIR (PREVENTION AND
CONTROL OF
SECTION
PRELIMINARY
1. Short
title, extent and commencement
CENTRAL AND STATE BOARDS FOR THE PREVENTION
AND CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION
3. Central
Pollution Control Board
5. Constitution of State Boards
7. Terms and conditions of service of members
11. Constitution of Committees
12. Temporary association of persons with Board for particular
purpose
13. Vacancy in Board not to invalidate acts or proceedings
14. Member‑secretary and officers and other employees of
State Boards
16. Functions
of Central Board
19. Power to declare air pollution control areas
20. Power to give instructions for ensuring standards for
emission from automobiles
21. Restrictions on use of certain industrial plants
22A. Power of Board to make application to Court
for restraining persons from causing air pollution
23. Furnishing of information to State Board and other agencies
in certain cases
24. Power of entry and inspection
25. Power to obtain information
26. Power to take samples of air or emission
and procedure to be followed in connection therewith
27. Reports
of the result of analysis on samples taken under section 26
32. Contributions by Central Government
33A. Borrowing
powers of Board
38. Penalties
for certain acts
39. Penalty
for contravention of certain provisions of the Act
41. Offences
by Government Departments
42. Protection
of action taken in good faith
44. Members,
officers and employees of Board to be public servants
47. Power
of State Government to supersede State Board
49. Dissolution
of State Boards constituted under the Act
53. Power
of Central Government to make rules
54. Power
of State Government to make rules