THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT APPELLATE AUTHORITY ACT, 1997ACT NO. 22 OF 1997[26th March, 1997]An Act to provide for the establishment of a National Environment Appellate Authority to hear appeals with respect to restriction of areas in which any industries, operations or processes or class of industries, operations or processes shall not be carried out or shall be carried out subject to certain safeguards under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.Be it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-CHAPTER IPRELIMINARY1. (1) This Act may be called the National Environment Appellate Authority Act, 1997. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 30th day of January, 1997.2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "Act" means the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986; (b) "Authority" means the National Environment Appellate Authority esta...