Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977
16. Power to amend Schedule I
(1) The Central Government may, by
notification in the Official Gazette add to Schedule I any industry having
regard to the consumption of water in the carrying on of such industry and the
consequent discharge thereof resulting in pollution of any stream and thereupon
Schedule I shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), be deemed to be
amended accordingly.
(2) Every such notification shall be laid
before each House of Parliament, if it is sitting, as soon as may be after the
issue of the notification, and if it is not sitting, within seven days of its
re-assembly and the Central Government shall seek the approval of Parliament to
the notification by a resolution moved within a period of fifteen days
beginning with the day on which the notification is so laid before the House of
the People, and if Parliament makes any modification in the notification or
directs that the notification should cease to have effect, the notification
shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as
the case may be, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously
done thereunder.