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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 209

Provision of Washing Places

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 209 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - Provision of Washing Places. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

(1) A1[Board] may provide suitable places for the exercise by washermen of their calling, and may require payment of such fees for the use thereof as it thinks fit.

(2) Where the1[Board] has provided such places as aforesaid it may, by public notice, prohibit the washing of clothes by washermen at any other place in the cantonment:

Provided that such prohibition shall not be deemed to apply to the washing by a washerman of his own clothes or of the clothes of any other person who is an occupier of the place at which they are washed.

(3) Whoever contravenes any prohibition contained in a notice issued under sub-section (2) shall be punishable with fine which may extend to2[one hundred rupees].

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

2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 121, for "twenty rupees" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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What does Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 209 provide?

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