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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 173

Free Patients

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 173 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - Free Patients. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

At every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 171, the sick poor of the cantonment, and other inhabitants of the cantonment suffering from infectious or contagious diseases, and, with the sanction of the1[Board], any other sick persons, may receive medical2[or surgical] treatment free of cost, and, if treated as in-patients, shall be either dieted gratuitously or, if the medical officer in charge so directs, shall be granted subsistence allowance on such scale as the1[Board] may fix.

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

2. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 43.

3. The Proviso omitted by Act 15 of 1983, section 98 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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