(To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii) )
MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS
NOTIFICATION
New Delhi, the 31st May, 2006

S.O. 834 (E) :- In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 12 and section 13 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986) read with rule 10 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, the Central Government hereby recognises the laboratories specified in column (2) of the Table below as environmental laboratories to carry out the functions entrusted to the environmental laboratories under the said Act and the rules made thereunder, and the persons specified in column (3) of the said Table to be the Government Analysts for the purposes of analysis of samples of air, water, soil or other substances sent for analysis by the Central Government or the officer empowered under section 11 of the said Act, and for that purpose makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests, number S.O.728(E), dated the 21st July, 1987, namely:-
In the Table appended to the said notification, after serial number 128 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial numbers and entries shall be inserted, namely :-

2. The recognition of laboratories mentioned at serial numbers 129 to 132 of the Table shall be valid for a period of five years from the date of publication of this notification and such recognition may be revoked earlier by the Central Government.-

( F.No.Q.15018/7/2003-CPW)
R.K. VAISH, Jt. Secy.

Note:- The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India vide number S.O. 728(E) dated 21st July, 1987 and subsequently amended vide:-

S.O. 838(E) dated 23rd September, 1987 , S.O. 989 (E), dated 17th November, 1987 , S.O. 156 (E) dated 24th February, 1989, S.O. 489 (E), dated 17th May, 1989, S.O. 846 (E) dated 24th October, 1989, S.O. 375 (E), dated 26th April, 1990, S.O.633 (E) dated 31st August, 1994, S.O.54(E), dated 15th January, 1997, S.O.305(E) dated 7th April, 1997, S.O.173(E) dated 9th March, 1998, S.O.1508 dated 27th July, 1998, S.O.454, dated 11th February, 2000, S.O. 683, dated 23rd March, 2001 & S.O.820 (E), dated 2nd August, 2002, S.O. 1257 (E) dated the 2nd December, 2002, S.O. 462 (E) dated the 23rd April, 2003, S.O. 598 (E) dated the 26th April, 2004, S.O. 1139 (E) dated the 15th October, 2004 & S.O. 774 (E) dated 7th June, 2005.