Battery Waste Management (Third Amendment) Rules, 2024

REGD. No. D. L.-33004/99 The Gazette of India CG-DL-E-04122024-259140 EXTRAORDINARY PART II-Section 3-Sub-section (ii) PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 4817] NEW DELHI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2024/AGRAHAYANA 12, 1946 MINISTRY OF ENVIRNMENT, FORESTAND CLIMATE CHANGE NOTIFICATION New Delhi, the 3rd December, 2024 S.O. 5210(E).— WHEREAS the Jan Vishwas (Amendment of Provision) Act, 2023 (18 of 2023) inter alia amends the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) for decriminalising the offences under the said Act; AND WHEREAS the Central Government is of the opinion that it is necessary and expedient in the public interest to amend the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022; AND WHEREAS sub-rule (4) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 provides that whenever it appears to the Central Government that it is in the public interest to do so, it may dispense with the requirement of notice under clause (a) of sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986; AND WHEREAS the Central Government is of the opinion that it is in the public interest to dispense with the requirement of notice under clause (a) of sub-rule (3) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 for amending the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022; NOW, THEREFORE in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1), clauses (v) and (vii) of sub-section (2) of section 3; sub-section (1), clauses (c) and (d) of sub-section (2) of section 6; section 8; and clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), read with sub-rule (4) of rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022, namely:— 2. In the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022, in rule 13,- (a) "sub-rule (2) shall be omitted." (b) for sub-rule (9), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:- “(9) Any person, who fails to comply or contravenes the provisions of these rules shall be liable to a penalty in accordance with the provisions of section 15 of the Act.". [F. No. 12/36/2019-HSMD] NARESH PAL GANGWAR, Addl. Secy. Note. — The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S.O. 3984(E), dated the 24th August, 2022 and subsequently amended vide notification numbers S.O. 4669(E), dated the 25th October, 2023, G.S.R. 190(E), dated the 14th March, 2024 and S.O. 2374 (E), dated 20th June, 2024.