The Act is divided in the following Chapters: Chapter I, General Provisions; Chapter II, Regulation of Soot and Smoke Emission; Chapter II-2, Regulation on Particulate; Chapter II-3, Promotion of Measures Concerning Hazardous Air Pollutants; Chapter III, Maximum Permissible Limits of Exhausts of Motor Vehicles; Chapter IV, Monitoring of the Level of Air Pollution; Chapter IV-2, Compensation For Harm ; Chapter V, Miscellaneous Provisions; Chapter VI, Penal Provisions; Supplementary Provisions. Provisions deal with the prevention, control and abatement of air pollutants, be them solid, gas or liquid, emissions, soot and smoke and noise as also by products of industrial or domestic activities or exhaust fumes of vehicles. Long and short term planning shall be devised in order to set air quality standards, create community awareness on the air pollution, prepare technical training and dossiers to carry out aforesaid measures of pollution prevention and control. The State Boards may declare air pollution control areas and restrict the usage of fuel or other burning substances deemed responsible of polluting the athmosphere;car emission standards shall be set as also standars for pollutant emission in any industrial activities. Equipment to abate polluting fumes must be employed in those industries and inspection on their performance shall be carried on. Under this Act State Air Laboratories are instituted, where samples of air shall be tested to investigate polluting agents. Audits shall be conducted on regular basis and financial aid to the State Boards shall be granted to fund their activities.
Air Pollution Control Law (Law No. 97 of 1968 as amended by Law No. 32 of 1996).