law: Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
  28. Appeals
  
  
  (1) Any person aggrieved by an order made by the State Board under section 25,
  
  section 26 or section 27 may, within thirty days from the date on which the
  
  order is communicated to him, prefer an appeal to such authority (hereinafter
  
  referred to as the appellate authority) as the State Government may think fit
  
  to constitute :
  
  Provided that the appellate authority may entertain the appeal after the
  
  expiry of the said period of thirty days if such authority is satisfied that
  
  the appellant was prevented by sufficient cause from filing the appeal in time.
  (2) An appellate authority shall consist of a
  
  single person or three persons, as the State Government may think fit, to be
  
  appointed by that Government.
  (3) The form and manner in which an appeal may
  
  be preferred under sub-section (1), the fees payable for such appeal and the
  
  procedure to be followed by the appellate authority shall be such as may be
  
  prescribed.
  (4) On receipt of an appeal preferred under
  
  sub-section (1), the appellate authority shall, after giving the appellant and
  
  the State Board an opportunity of being heard, dispose of the appeal as
  
  expeditiously as possible.
  (5) If the appellate authority determines that
  
  any condition imposed, or the variation of any condition, as the case may be,
  
  was unreasonable then, -
  (a) where the appeal
  
  is in respect of the unreasonableness of any condition imposed, such authority
  
  may direct either the condition shall be treated as annulled or that there
  
  shall be substituted for it such condition as appears to it to be reasonable;
  (b) where the appeal
  
  is in respect of the unreasonableness of any variation of a condition, such
  
  authority may direct either the condition shall be treated as continuing in
  
  force unvaried or that it shall be varied in such manner as appears to it to be
  
  reasonable.