Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009

Inland water pollution becomes an important issue today. Furthermore, if this pollution is carried out by a large business organization and able to pay the penalty in the form of money. There is a legal framework governing the inland water pollution penalties, namely the Environmental Quality Act 19...

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Main Authors: Yaacob, Nurli, Abdul Wahab, Harlida, Mohd Anuar, Haslinda
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Published: Global Academic Excellence 2018
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spelling my.uum.repo.255042019-01-27T02:17:18Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/25504/ Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009 Yaacob, Nurli Abdul Wahab, Harlida Mohd Anuar, Haslinda KZ Law of Nations Inland water pollution becomes an important issue today. Furthermore, if this pollution is carried out by a large business organization and able to pay the penalty in the form of money. There is a legal framework governing the inland water pollution penalties, namely the Environmental Quality Act 1974 and its regulations including the Environmental Quality (Industrial Effluent) Regulations 2009. Therefore, this article was written to study the provisions of the law under the Environmental Quality (Industrial Effluent) Regulations 2009 as well as kind of punishment from cases that have been decided by the court in respect ofinland water pollution on companies. The findings show that the punishment provided by law is sufficient. However, the fine imposed by the court is relatively low and the percentage of cases which involved imprisonment is extremely small. Global Academic Excellence 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/25504/1/IJLGC%203%2013%202018%2091%20105.pdf Yaacob, Nurli and Abdul Wahab, Harlida and Mohd Anuar, Haslinda (2018) Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009. International Journal of Law, Government and Communication, 3 (13). pp. 91-105. ISSN 0128-1763 http://www.ijlgc.com/archived.asm
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Yaacob, Nurli
Abdul Wahab, Harlida
Mohd Anuar, Haslinda
Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009
description Inland water pollution becomes an important issue today. Furthermore, if this pollution is carried out by a large business organization and able to pay the penalty in the form of money. There is a legal framework governing the inland water pollution penalties, namely the Environmental Quality Act 1974 and its regulations including the Environmental Quality (Industrial Effluent) Regulations 2009. Therefore, this article was written to study the provisions of the law under the Environmental Quality (Industrial Effluent) Regulations 2009 as well as kind of punishment from cases that have been decided by the court in respect ofinland water pollution on companies. The findings show that the punishment provided by law is sufficient. However, the fine imposed by the court is relatively low and the percentage of cases which involved imprisonment is extremely small.
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author Yaacob, Nurli
Abdul Wahab, Harlida
Mohd Anuar, Haslinda
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Abdul Wahab, Harlida
Mohd Anuar, Haslinda
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title Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009
title_short Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009
title_full Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009
title_fullStr Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009
title_full_unstemmed Punishment for inland water pollution under the Environmental Quality (Industrial effluent) Regulation 2009
title_sort punishment for inland water pollution under the environmental quality (industrial effluent) regulation 2009
publisher Global Academic Excellence
publishDate 2018
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