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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 166

Means of Disinfection

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 166 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - Means of Disinfection. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) Every1[Board] shall-

(a) provide proper place with necessary attendants and apparatus for the disinfection of conveyances, clothing, bedding or

other articles which have been exposed to infection;

(b) cause conveyances, clothing or other articles brought for disinfection to be disinfected either free of charge or on payment of such charges as it may fix.

(2) A1[Board] may notify places at which articles of clothing, bedding, conveyances or other articles which have been exposed to infection shall be washed, and, if it does so, no person shall wash any such thing at any place not so notified without having previously disinfected such thing.

(3) The President of a Board2[* * *] may direct the destruction of any clothing, bedding or other article in the cantonment likely to retain infection, and may give such compensation as he thinks fit for any article so destroyed.

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1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Autority".

2. The words "or, where there is no Board, the Officer Commanding the station" omitted by Act 24 of 1936, section 41.

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