CANTONMENTS ACT, 1924

CANTONMENTS ACT, 1924

S.1 Short title, extent and commencement

S.2 Definitions

S.2(a) Rule of construction

S.3 Definition of cantonments

S.4 Alteration of limits of cantonments

S.5 The effect of including area in cantonment

S.6 Disposal of cantonment fund when area ceases to be a cantonment

S.7 Disposal of cantonment fund when area ceases to be included in a cantonment

S.8 Application of funds and property transferred under sections 6 and 7

S.9 Limitation of operation of Act

S.10 Cantonment Board and Executive Officer

S.11 Incorporation of Cantonment Board

S.12 Appointment of Executive Officer

S.13 Constitution of Cantonment Boards

S.14 Power to vary constitution of Boards in special circumstances

S.15 Term of office of members

S.16 Pilling of vacancies

S.17 Vacancies in special cases

S.18 Oath or affirmation

S.19 Resignation

S.20 President and Vice-President

S.21 Term of office of Vice-President

S.22 Duties of President

S.23 Duties of Vice-President

S.24 Appointment of Executive Officer

S.24(a) Duties of Executive Officer

S.25 Special power of the Executive Officer

S.26 Electoral rolls

S.27 Qualification of electors

S.28 Qualification for being a member of the Board

S.29 Interpretation

S.30 Joint families, etc

S.31 Power to make rules regulating elections

S.32 Member not to vote on matter in which he is interested

S.33 Liability of members

S.34 Removal of members

S.35 Consequences of removal

S.35(a) Member of the Board to be deemed a public servant

S.36 Disqualification of person as servant of Board

S.36(a) Cantonment servant to be deemed a public servant

S.37 Meetings

S.38 Business to be transacted

S.39 Quorum

S.40 Presiding Officer

S.41 Minutes

S.42 Meetings to be public

S.43 Method of deciding questions

S.43(a) Committees for civil areas

S.44 Power to make regulations

S.45 Joint action with other local authority

S.45(a) Report on administration

S.46 Power of Central Government to require production of documents

S.47 Inspection

S.48 Power to call for documents

S.49 Power to require execution of work, etc

S.50 Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 49

S.51 Power to override decision of Board

S.51(a) Power of Central Government to review

S.52 Power of Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, on reference under section 51 or otherwise

S.53 Powers of Central Government on a reference made under section 51

S.54 Supersession of Board

S.55 Validity of proceedings, etc

S.56 Unauthorised sale of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug

S.57 Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor

S.58 Arrest of persons and seizure and contiscation of things for offences against the two last foregoing sections

S.59 Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes

S.60 General power of taxation

S.61 Framing of preliminary proposals

S.62 Objections and disposal thereof

S.63 Imposition of tax

S.63(a) Power of Central Government to issue directions to the Board

S.64 Definition of "annual value

S.65 Incidence of taxation

S.66 Assessment list

S.67 Publication of assessment list

S.68 Revision of assessment list

S.69 Authentication of assessment list

S.70 Evidential value of assessment list

S.71 Amendment of assessment list

S.72 Preparation of new assessment list

S.73 Notice of transfers

S.74 Notice of erection of buildings

S.75 Demolition, etc., of buildings

S.76 Remission of tax

S.77 Power to require entry in assessment list of details of buildings

S.77(a) Notice to be given of the circumstances in which remission or refund is claimed

S.78 What buildings, etc., are to be deemed vacant

S.79 Notice to be given of every occupation of vacant building or house

S.80 Tax on buildings and land to be a charge thereon

S.81 Inspection of imported goods, etc

S.82 Evasion of octroi or terminal tax

S.83 Lease of octroi, terminal tax or toll

S.84 Appeals against assessment

S.85 Costs of appeal

S.86 Recovery of costs from Board

S.87 Conditions of right to appeal

S.88 Finality of appellate orders

S.89 Time and manner of payment of taxes

S.90 Presentation of bill

S.91 Notice of demand

S.92 Recovery of tax

S.92(a) Interest payable on taxes due

S.93 Distress

S.94 Disposal of distrained property

S.94(a) Attachment and sale of immovable property

S.95 Recovery from a person about to leave cantonment

S.96 Power to institute suit for recovery

S.97 Power to prohibit or exempt from taxation

S.98 Power to make special provision for conservancy in certain cases

S.99 Exemption in the case of buildings

S.99(a) General power of exemption

S.100 Exemption of poor persons

S.101 Composition

S.102 Irrecoverable debts

S.103 Obligation to disclose liability

S.104 Immaterial error not to affect liability

S.105 Distraint not to be invalid by reason of immaterial defect

S.106 Cantonment fund

S.107 Custody of cantonment fund

S.108 Property

S.109 Application of cantonment fund and property

S.110 Acquisition of immovable property

S.111 Power to make rules regarding cantonment fund and property

S.112 Contracts by whom to be executed

S.113 Sanction

S.114 Execution of contract

S.115 Contracts improperly executed not to be binding on a Board

S.116 Duties of Board

S.116(a) Power to manage property

S.117 Discretionary functions of Board

S.117(a) Power of expenditure for educational purposes outside the cantonment

S.118 Penalty for causing nuisances

S.119 Registration and control of dogs

S.120 Rule of the road

S.121 Use of inflammable materials for building purposes

S.122 Stacking or collecting inflammable materials

S.123 Care of naked lights

S.124 Regulation of cinematographic and dramatic performance

S.125 Discharging fire-works, fire-arms, etc

S.126 Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe

S.127 Enclosure of waste land used for improper purposes

S.128 Responsibility for sanitation

S.129 General duties of Health Officer

S.130 Public latrines, urinals and conservancy establishments

S.130(a) Duty of occupier to collect and deposit rubbish, etc

S.131 Power of Board to undertake private conservancy arrangements

S.132 Deposits and disposal of rubbish, etc

S.133 Cesspools, receptacles, for filth, etc

S.134 Filling up of tank, etc

S.135 Provision of latrines, etc

S.136 Sanitation in factories, etc

S.137 Private latrines

S.138 Removal of congested buildings

S.139 Overcrowding of dwelling houses

S.140 Power to require repair or alteration of building

S.141 Power to require land or building to be cleansed

S.142 Power to order disuse of house

S.143 Removal of noxious vegetation

S.144 Agriculture and irrigation

S.145 Power to call for information regarding burial and burning grounds

S.146 Permission for use of new burial or burning ground

S.147 Power to require closing of burial or burning ground

S.148 Exemption from operation of sections 145 to 147

S.149 Removal of corpses

S.150 Obligation concerning infectious or contagious diseases

S.151 Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases

S.152 Power to require names of dairyman's customers

S.153 Power to require names of a washerman's customers

S.154 Report after inspection of dairy or washerman's place of business

S.155 Action on report submitted by Health Officer

S.156 Examination of milk or washed clothes

S.157 Contamination of public conveyance

S.158 Disinfection of public conveyance

S.159 Penalty for failure to report

S.160 Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or-contagious disease

S.161 Disinfection of building or articles therein

S.162 Destruction of infectious hut or shed

S.163 Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed building or shed

S.164 Disinfection of building before letting the same

S.165 Disposal of infected article without disinfection

S.166 Means of disinfection

S.167 Making or selling of food, etc., or washing clothes by infected person

S.168 Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink

S.169 Control over wells, tanks, etc

S.170 Disposal of infectious corpse

S.171 Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries

S.172 Medical supplies, appliances, etc

S.173 Free patients

S.174 Paying patients

S.175 Power to order person to attend hospital or dispensary

S.176 Power to exclude from cantonment persons refusing to attend hospital or dispensary

S.177 Routes for pilgrims and others

S.178 Conditions of service of safaiwalas

S.178(a) Sanction for building

S.179 Notice of new buildings

S.180 Conditions of valid notice

S.180(a) Powers of Board under certain sections exercisable by Executive Officer

S.181 Power of Board to sanction or refuse

S.181(a) Power to sanction general scheme for prevention, of overcrowding, etc

S.182 Compensation

S.183 Lapse of sanction

S.183(a) Period for completion of building

S.183(b) Completing notice

S.184 Illegal erection and re-erection

S.185 Power to stop erection or re-erection or to demolish

S.186 Power to make bye-laws

S.187 Projections and obstructions

S.188 Unauthorised buildings over drains, etc

S.189 Drainage and sewer connections

S.190 Power to attach brackets for lamps

S.191 Temporary occupation of street, land, etc

S.192 Closing and opening of streets

S.193 Names of streets and numbers of buildings

S.194 Boundary walls, hedges and fences

S.195 Felling, lopping and trimming of trees

S.196 Digging of public land

S.197 Improper use of land

S.198 Public markets and slaughter-houses

S.199 Use of public market

S.200 Power to transfer by public auction, etc

S.201 Stallages, rents, etc., to be published

S.202 Private markets and slaughter-houses

S.203 Conditions of grant of licence for private market or slaughter-house

S.204 Penalty for keeping market or slaughter-house open without licence, etc

S.205 Penalty for using unlicensed market or slaughter-house

S.206 Prohibition and restriction of use of slaughter-house

S.207 Power to inspect slaughter-houses

S.208 Power to make bye-laws

S.209 Provision of washing places

S.210 Licences required for carrying on of certain occupations

S.211 Conditions which may be attached to licences

S.212 Power to vary licence

S.213 Carrying on trade, etc., without licence or in contravention of section 212

S.214 Feeding animals on dirt, etc

S.215 Powers of entry and seizure

S.216 Import of cattle and flesh

S.217 Maintenance of water-supply

S.218 Control over sources of public water-supply

S.219 Power to require maintenance or closing of private source of public drinking water-supply

S.220 Supply of water

S.221 Power to require water-supply to be taken

S.222 Supply of water under agreement

S.223 Board not liable for failure of supply

S.224 Conditions of universal application

S.225 Supply to persons outside cantonment

S.226 Penalty

S.227 Power of Board to lay wires, connections, etc

S.228 Wires, etc., laid above surface of ground

S.229 Connection with main not to be made without permission

S.230 Power to prescribe ferrules and to establish meters, etc

S.231 Power of inspection

S.232 Power to fix rates and charges

S.233 Government water-supply

S.234 Recovery of charges

S.234(a) Supply of water from Government water-supply to the Board

S.234(b) Functions of the Board in relation to distribution of bulk supply

S.235 Power to remove brothels and prostitutes

S.236 Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitution

S.237 Removal of lewd persons from cantonment

S.238 Removal and exclusion from cantonments of disorderly persons

S.239 Removal and exclusion from cantonment of seditious persons

S.240 Penalty

S.241 Powers of entry

S.242 Power of inspection by Member of a Board

S.243 Power of inspection, etc

S.244 Power to enter land adjoining land where work is in progress

S.245 Breaking into premises

S.246 Entry to be made in the day time

S.247 Owner's consent ordinarily to be obtained

S.248 Regard to be had to social and religious usages

S.249 Penalty for obstruction

S.250 Arrest without warrant

S.251 Duties of police officers

S.252 Notices to fix reasonable time

S.253 Authentication and validity of notices issued by Board

S.254 Service of notice, etc

S.255 Method of giving notice

S.256 Powers of Board in case of non-compliance with notice, etc

S.256(a) Occupier not to obstruct owner when complying with notice

S.257 Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner

S.258 Relief to agents and trustees

S.259 Method of recovery

S.260 Application for a Committee of Arbitration

S.261 Procedure for convening Committee of Arbitration

S.262 Constitution of Committee of Arbitration

S.263 No person to be nominated who has direct interest or whose services are not immediately available

S.264 Meetings and powers of Committees of Arbitration

S.265 Decisions of Committee of Arbitration

S.266 Prosecutions

S.267 Composition of offence

S.268 General penalty

S.268(a) Offences by companies

S.269 Cancellation or suspension of licences, etc

S.270 Recovery of amount payable in respect of damage to cantonment property

S.271 Limitation for prosecution

S.272 Protection of Board, Executive Officer, etc

S.273 Notice to be given of suits

S.274 Appeals from executive orders

S.275 Petition of appeal

S.276 Suspension of action pending appeal

S.277 Revision

S.278 Finality of appellate orders

S.279 Right of appellant to be heard

S.280 Power to make rules

S.281 Supplemental provisions respecting rules

S.282 Power to make bye-laws

S.283 Penalty for breach of bye-laws

S.284 Supplemental provisions regarding bye-laws

S.285 Rules and bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase

S.286 Extension of certain provisions of the Act and rules to place beyond cantonments

S.286(a) Power to delegate functions to the President, etc

S.287 Registration

S.288 Validity of notices and other documents

S.289 Admissibility of document or entry as evidence

S.290 Evidence by officer or servant of the Board

S.291 Application of Act 4 of 1899

S.292 Repeals

Sch.1 NOTICE OF DEMAND

Sch.2 FORM OF WARRANT

Sch.3 FORM OF INVENTORY OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED AND NOTICE OF SALE

Sch.4 CASES IN WHICH POLICE MAY ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT

Sch.5 APPEALS FROM ORDERS

Sch.6 Enactments repealed

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