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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 227

Power of Board to Lay Wires, Connections, Etc

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 227 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - Power of Board to Lay Wires, Connections, Etc. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

A 1 [Board] may carry any cable, wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel of any kind,--

(a) for the purpose of carrying out, establishing or maintaining any system of water-supply, lighting, drainage, or sewerage, through, across, under or over any road or street, or any place laid out or intended as a road or street, or, after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through, across, under or over any land or building, or up the side of any building, situated within the cantonment, or

(b) for the purpose of supplying water or of the introduction or distribution of outfall of water or for the removal or outfall of sewage, after giving reasonable notice in writing to the owner or occupier, into, through, across, under or over any land or building, or up the side of any building, situated outside the cantonment,

and may at all times do all acts and things which may be necessary or expedient for repairing or maintaining any such cable, wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel in an effective state for the purpose for which the same may be used or is intended to be used :

Provided that no nuisance shall be caused in excess of what is reasonably necessary for the proper execution of the work :

Provided further, that compensation shall be payable to the owner or occupier for any damage sustained by him which is directly occasioned by the carrying out of any such operation.

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

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What does Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 227 provide?

Section Section 227 of the Cantonments Act, 1924 (Power of Board to Lay Wires, Connections, Etc) 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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