RESPONSIBL ACT OR SECTIO SUMMARY OF PROVISION COMPLIANCE
E REGULATION N STATUS
DEPARTMENT NUMBER
ENVIRONMENTAL Section Prohibition of water pollution. Any
MANADMENT 57 person, who discharges or applies
ACT any poison or toxic, noxious or
obstructing matter, radioactive waste
or other pollutants or permits any
person to dump or discharge such
matter into the aquatic environment
in contravention of water pollution
control standards shall be guilty of an
offence
ENVIRONMENTAL Section All owners or operators of irrigation
MANADMENT ACT 58 project schemes, sewerage systems,
industrial production workshop or
any other undertakings which may
discharge effluents or other
pollutants or have been discharging
effluents or other pollutants shall
submit on demand to the Board
accurate information about the
quantity and quality of such effluent
or other pollutants.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section Every owner or operator of a trade or
MANADMENT ACT 59 industrial undertaking shall discharge
any effluent or other pollutants
originating from the trade or
industrial undertaking only into an
existing sewerage system and the
local authority
operating or supervising such
sewerage system shall issue, at a
prescribed fee, the necessary licence
for the
discharge
ENVIRONMENTAL Section The proponent or owner of a trade or
MANADMENT ACT 59 (2) an industrial undertaking shall prior
to being granted a licence to
discharge effluents into the
environment, install an appropriate
plant for the treatment of such
effluents before they
are discharged into the environment.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section No local authority operating a
MANADMENT ACT 60 (1) sewerage system or owner or
operator of any trade or industrial
undertaking operating within the
jurisdiction of two or more contiguous
local authorities shall discharge any
effluents or other
pollutants into the environment
without an effluent discharge licence
issued by the Board.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section Every owner or operator of a trade or
MANADMENT ACT 60 (2) industrial undertaking referred to in
subsection (1) which discharges any
effluents or other pollutants into the
environment before the
commencement of this Act shall,
within twelve
months of such commencement
apply to the Board for an effluent
discharge licence.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section No owner or operator of a trade or
MANADMENT ACT 64 any establishment shall emit a
substance or energy which causes or
is likely
to cause air pollution without an
emission licence issued by the
Board.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section No owner or operator of a transport
MANADMENT ACT 68 conveyance shall operate it in such
manner or condition as to cause air
pollution in contravention of
prescribed emission standards for
the class of transport conveyance
concerned.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section No person shall discharge or dispose
MANADMENT ACT 70 of any wastes, whether generated
within or outside Zimbabwe, in
such a manner as to cause pollution
to the environment or ill health to any
person.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section Every person whose activities
MANADMENT ACT 70 (3) generate waste shall employ
measures essential to minimise
wastes through
treatment, reclamation and
recycling.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section No person shall discharge any
MANADMENT ACT 73 hazardous substance, chemical, oil
or a mixture containing oil into any
waters or any other or any parts of
the environment contrary to the
criteria prescribed in the rms of
section seventy-two.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section Any person who emits noise in
MANADMENT ACT 80 excess of the noise emission
standards established under section
seventy-nine
shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable upon conviction to a
fine not exceeding level fourteen or
to
imprisonment for a period not
exceeding twelve months or to both
such fine and such imprisonment.
ENVIRONMENTAL Section No person shall discard, dump or
MANADMENT ACT 83 leave any litter on any land or water
surface, street, road or site in or at
any place except in a container
provided for that purpose or at a
place which has been specially
designated,
indicated, provided or set apart for
such purpose.
