Environment Protection Act 1986 Questions and Answers

Answer: D

The Act has 4 Chapters and 26 Sections.

The Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, passed after the Bhopal gas disaster, is an umbrella law. Its four chapters are: preliminary; general powers of the Central Government; prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution; and miscellaneous. They contain 26 sections.

The other combinations, with 61, 66 or 71 sections, do not describe this compact Act.

Answer: B

The Act followed the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment.

The Stockholm Conference of June 1972 was the first major UN conference on the environment. India took part, and the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 was passed under Article 253, which lets Parliament legislate to implement international decisions; its preamble refers to the decisions taken at Stockholm. The Bhopal gas disaster of 1984 added urgency.

The International Conference on Population and Development was held at Cairo in 1994, the UN Conference on International Organization at San Francisco in 1945 (it drafted the UN Charter), and the UN Climate Change Conferences began in 1995, all unrelated to the 1986 Act.

Answer: C

The Environment (Protection) Act was passed in 1986.

Enacted after the Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984, under Article 253 to implement the decisions of the 1972 Stockholm Conference, the Act is an umbrella law that empowers the central government to protect and improve the environment and to regulate pollution.

1972 is the year of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and the Stockholm Conference, and the other years do not match the Act.