ISO 14001:2015 EMS
06 List of Acts and Rules - Few
Use as Applicable and Refer latest acts and rules: (some are given here Environmental and occupational
health & safety)
1. Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981
2. Air [Prevention and control of pollution] Rules, 1982-83
3. Battery Management and Handling Rules, 2001
4. Biomedical waste (Management and Handling) Rules,
1998 and Amendment Rules, 2000
5. Boilers Rules of Various States
6. Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of
Employment & Conditions of Service) Act, 1996
7. Building and Other Construction Workers (Regulation of
Employment & Conditions of Service) Central Rules, 1998
8. Calcium Carbide Rules, 1987
9. Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989
10. Chemical Accidents (Emergency Planning, Preparedness
and Response) Rules, 1996
11. Coal Mines Regulations, 1957
12. Dangerous Machines (Regulation Act, 1983)
13. Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Act, 1986
14. Dock Workers (Safety, Health and Welfare) Regulations,
1989
15. Drugs & Cosmetics Acts & Rules, 1995
16. Electricity Act, 2003
17. Electricity Rules, 1956
18. Employee’s State Insurance Act & Rules
19. Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (Amended 1991)
20. Environment (Protection) Rules, 1994
21. Environment (Protection) Rules-“Environmental Standards
1996
22. Environment (Protection) Rules-“Environmental Statement”
1992/1993
23. Environment (Protection) Second Amendment Rule –
“Environmental Standards” 1999
24. Environment Protection Act, 1986
25. Environment Protection Rules, 1986 (Amended 2006)
26. Environment Protection Rules-Coal Beneficiation, 1997
27. Environmental (Protection) Rules-“Environmental
Clearance” 1994
28. Explosives Act, 1884 (Amended 1983)
29. Explosives Rules, 1983 (Amended 2002)
30. Factories Act, 1948 (Amended 1987 & 2001) and the State
Factories Rules of Respective States
31. Fatal Accident Act, 1855
32. Gas Cylinders Rules, 2004
33. Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules,
1989 (Amended 2003)
34. Indian Boilers Act, 1923 (Amended 1960)
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35. Indian Boilers Regulations, 1950 (Amended 1997)
36. Indian Electricity Act, 1910
37. Indian Electricity Rules, 1956
38. Indian Port Act, 1908
39. Insecticides Act, 1968
40. Insecticides Rules, 1971
41. Major Accidents Hazard Control Rules, 1997
42. Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous
Chemical Rules, 1989 (Amended 1994 /2000)
43. Manufacture, Use, Export, Import and Storage of
Hazardous Micro-organisms, Genetically Engineered
Micro-organisms or Cells Rules, 1989
44. Maternity Benefit Act, 1961
45. Metallic-Ferrous Mines Regulation, 1961
46. Mines Act, 1952 (Amended 1984)
47. Mines Rules, 1955 (Amended 1989)
48. Mines Vocational Rules, 1985
49. Motor Transport Workers Act, 1961
50. Motor Transport Workers Rules, 1964
51. Motor Vehicle Act, 1988
52. Motor Vehicle Rules, 1989
53. Motor Vehicles (Central) Rules, 1989
54. National Environment Tribunal Act, 1995
55. National Environmental Appellate Authority Act, 1998
56. Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules.2000
57. Oil Mines Regulations, 1984 (Amended 1996)
58. Ozone Depleting Substance (Regulation and Control)
Rules, 2000
59. Petroleum Act ,1934
60. Petroleum Rules, 2002
61. Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991
62. Public Liability Insurance Rule, 1991
63. Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace
(Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013
64. Shop and commercial Establishment Act – State Govt
65. Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement)
Act, 1985
66. Static and Mobile Pressure Vessels (Unfired) Rules,
1981 (Amended 2002)
67. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
68. Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act,
1997
69. Water [Prevention and control of pollution] Rules 1975
70. Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923
71. Workmen’s Compensation Rules, 1924
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