Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
12. Environmental Laboratories
(1) The Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, -
(a) establish one or
more environmental laboratories;
(b) recognise one or more laboratories or institutes as
environmental laboratories to carry out the functions entrusted to an
environmental laboratory under this Act.
(2) The Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette, make rules specifying -
(a) the functions of
the environmental laboratory;
(b) the procedure for
the submission to the said laboratory of samples of air, water, soil or other
substance for analysis or tests, the form of the laboratory report thereon the
fees payable for such report;
(c) such other matters
as may be necessary or expedient to enable that laboratory to carry out its
functions.