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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 193

Names of Streets and Numbers of Buildings

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 193 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - Names of Streets and Numbers of Buildings. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1[(1) A Board may determine the name or number by which any area, street or public place in the cantonment shall be known, may cause name or number to be affixed on any building in the cantonment in such place as it thinks fit and may also cause a number to be affixed to any such building.]

(2) Whoever destroys, pulls down, defaces or alters any such name or number or puts up any name or number differing from that put up by the order of the2[Board] shall be punishable with fine which may extend to3[one hundred rupees.]

4[(3) When a5[name or number] has been affixed to any building under sub-section (1), the owner of the building shall maintain the5[name or number] in order, and shall replace it if removed or defaced, and if he fails to do so the6[Executive Officer] may by notice in writing require him to replace it].

Boundaries and trees

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1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 112, for sub-section (1) w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

3. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 112, for "twenty rupees" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

4. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 53.

5. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 115, for "number" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

6. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 112, for "Board" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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What does Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 193 provide?

Section Section 193 of the Cantonments Act, 1924 (Names of Streets and Numbers of Buildings) 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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