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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 176

Power to Exclude from Cantonment Persons Refusing to Attend Hospital or Dispensary

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 176 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - Power to Exclude from Cantonment Persons Refusing to Attend Hospital or Dispensary. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) If the Health Officer or the medical officer in-charge of a hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 171 reports in writing to the1[Officer Commanding the station] that any person having received a notice under section 175 has refused or omitted to attend at the hospital or dispensary, specified in the notice, or that such person, having attended the hospital or dispensary, has quitted it without the permission of such medical officer, or that any person has failed to comply with any direction given to him under section 175 the1[Officer Commanding the station] may, by order in writing, direct such person to remove from the cantonment within twenty-four hours and not to re-enter it without his permission in writing.

(2) No person who has under sub-section (1) been ordered to remove from and not to re-enter a cantonment shall enter any other cantonment2[* * *] without the written permission of the3[Officer Commanding the station].

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1. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 14, for "Commanding Officer of the Cantonment".

2. The words "in the Provinces" omitted by the A.O. 1950.

3. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 8, for "Commanding Officer of the Cantonment".

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What does Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 176 provide?

Section Section 176 of the Cantonments Act, 1924 (Power to Exclude from Cantonment Persons Refusing to Attend Hospital or Dispensary) is reproduced on this page as part of the Cantonments Act, 1924. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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