law: Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
  25. Restrictions on New Outlets and New Discharges.
  
  (1) Subject to the provisions of this section,
  
  no person shall, without the previous consent of the State Board, -
  (a) establish or take
  
  any steps to establish any industry, operation or process, or any treatment and
  
  disposal system or any extension or addition thereto, which is likely to
  
  discharge sewage or trade effluent into a stream or well or sewer or on land
  
  (such discharge being hereafter in this section referred to as discharge of
  
  sewage); or
  (b) bring into use any
  
  new or altered outlet for the discharge of sewage; or
  (c) being to make any new discharge of sewage :
  Provided that a person in the process of taking
  
  any steps to establish any industry, operation or process immediately before
  
  the commencement of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment
  
  Act, 1988, for which no consent was necessary prior to such commencement, may
  
  continue to do so for a period of three months from such commencement or, if he
  
  has made an application for such consent, within the said period of three months,
  
  till the disposal of such application.
  (2) An application for consent of the State
  
  Board under sub-section (1) shall be made in such form, contain such
  
  particulars and shall be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed.
  (3) The State Board may make such inquiry as
  
  it may deem fir in respect of the application for consent referred to in
  
  sub-section (1) and in making any such inquiry shall follow such procedure as
  
  may be prescribed.
  (4) The State Board may -
  (a) grant its consent
  
  referred to in sub-section (1), subject to such conditions as it may impose,
  
  being -
  (i) in cases referred
  
  to in clauses (a) and (b) of sub-section (1) of section 25, conditions as to
  
  the point of discharge of sewage or as to the use of that outlet or any other
  
  outlet for discharge of sewage;
  
  
  (ii) in the case of a new discharge, conditions as to the nature and
  
  composition, temperature, volume or rate of discharge of the effluent from the
  
  land or premises from which the discharge or new discharge is to be made; and
  (iii) that the consent
  
  will be valid only for such period as may be specified in the order, and any
  
  such conditions imposed shall be binding on any person, establishing or taking
  
  any steps to establish any industry, operation or process, or treatment and
  
  disposal system or extension or addition thereto, or using the new or altered
  
  outlet, or discharging the effluent from the land or premises aforesaid; or
  (b) refuse such
  
  consent for reasons to be recorded in writing.
  (5) Where, without the consent of the State
  
  Board, any industry, operation or process, or any treatment and disposal system
  
  or any extension or addition thereto, is established, or any steps for such
  
  establishment have been taken or a new or altered outlet is brought into use
  
  for the discharge of sewage or a new discharge of sewage is made, the State
  
  Board may serve on the person who has established or taken steps to establish
  
  any industry, operation or process, or any treatment and disposal system or any
  
  extension or addition thereto, or using the outlet, or making the discharge, as
  
  the case may be, notice imposing any such conditions as it might have imposed
  
  on an application for its consent in respect of such establishment, such other
  
  or discharge.
  (6) Every State Board shall maintain a
  
  register containing particulars of the conditions imposed under this section
  
  and so much of the register as relates to any outlet, or to any effluent, from
  
  any land or premises shall be open to inspection at all reasonable hours by any
  
  person interested in or affected by such outlet, land or premises, as the case
  
  may be, or by any person authorized by him in this behalf and the conditions so
  
  contained in such register shall be conclusive proof that the consent was
  
  granted subject to such conditions.
  (7) The consent referred to in sub-section (1)
  
  shall, unless given or refused earlier be deemed to have been given
  
  unconditionally on the expiry of period of four months of the making of an
  
  application in this behalf complete in all respects to the State Board.
  (8) For the purposes of this section and sections 27 and 30, -
  (a) the expression
  
  "new or altered outlet" means any outlet which is wholly or partly
  
  constructed on or after the commencement of this Act or which (whether so
  
  constructed or not) is substantially altered after such commencement;
  (b) the expression "new discharge" means a discharge which is not, as
  
  respects the nature and composition, temperature, volume, and rate of discharge
  
  of the effluent substantially a continuation of a discharge made within the
  
  preceding twelve months (whether by the same or a different outlet), so however
  
  that a discharge which is in other respects a continuation of previous
  
  discharge made as aforesaid shall not be deemed to be a new discharge by reason
  
  of any reduction of the temperature or volume or rate discharge of the effluent
  
  as compared with the previous discharge.