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Cantonments Act, 2006

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Preamble1 - Cantonments Act, 2006
Section1 - Short title extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions: In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,
Chapter2 - : DEFINITION AND DELIMITATION OF CANTONMENT:
Section3 - Definition of cantonments
Section4 - Alteration of limits of cantonments
Section5 - The effect of including area in cantonment: When, by a notification under
Section6 - Disposal of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund when area ceases to be a cantonment
Section7 - Disposal of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund when area ceases to be included in a cantonment
Section8 - Application of funds and property transferred under Secs.6 and 7: Any cantonment fund or a cantonment development fund
Section9 - Limitation of operation of Act: The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exclude from the
Chapter3 - : CANTONMENT BOARDS:
Section10 - Cantonment Board
Section11 - Incorporation of Cantonment Board: Every Board shall, by the name of the place by reference to which the cantonment is
Section12 - Constitution of Cantonment Boards
Section13 - Power to vary constitution of Boards in special circumstances
Section14 - Terms of office of members
Section15 - Filling of vacancies
Section16 - Vacancies in special cases
Section17 - Oath or affirmation: Every person who is by virtue of his office, or who is nominated or elected to be, a member of the
Section18 - Resignation
Section19 - President and vice-President
Section20 - Term of office of vice-President
Section21 - Duties of President
Section22 - Duties of Vice-President
Section23 - Allowances to Vice-President and members: The Vice-President and each elected member of the Board shall be entitled to
Section24 - Appointment of Chief Executive Officer
Section25 - Duties of Chief Executive Officer
Section26 - Special power of Chief Executive Officer
Section27 - Electoral rolls
Section28 - Qualification of electors
Section29 - Qualification for being a member of the Board
Section30 - Interpretation
Section31 - Power to make rules regulating elections: The Central Government may, either generally or specially for any cantonment
Section32 - Member not to vote on matter in which he is interested
Section33 - Liability of members: Every member of a Board shall be liable for the loss, waste or misapplication of any money or
Section34 - Removal of members
Section35 - Consequences of removal
Section36 - Member of the Board to be deemed a public servant: Every member of the Board shall be deemed to be a public servant
Section37 - Disqualification of person as an employee of Board
Section38 - Cantonment employee to be deemed a public servant: Every officer or employee, permanent or temporary of a Board shall
Section39 - Meetings
Section40 - Business to be transacted: Subject to any regulation made by the Board under this Chapter, any business may be
Section41 - Quoram
Section42 - Presiding Officer: In the absence of
Section43 - Minutes
Section44 - Meetings to be public : Every meeting of a Board shall be open to the public unless in any case the person presiding
Section45 - Method of deciding questions
Section46 - Civil area
Section47 - Committees for civil areas
Section48 - Power to make regulations
Section49 - Joint action with other local authority
Section50 - Report on administration
Section51 - Power of Central Government to require production of documents: The Central Government or such officer or authority as
Section52 - Inspection: The Central Government or the General Officer Commanding-in-chief, the Command or the Director General or
Section53 - Power to call for documents: The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command or the Principal Director, may, by
Section54 - Power to require execution of work etc: If, on receipt of any information or report obtained under
Section55 - Power to provide for enforcement of direction under Sec.54: If, within the period fixed by a direction made under
Section56 - Power to override decision of Board
Section57 - Power to Central Government to review: The Central Government may, at any time, review any decision or order of the
Section58 - Power of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, on reference under Sec.56 or otherwise
Section59 - Power of Central Government on a reference made under Sec.56
Section60 - Suppression of Board
Section61 - Validity of proceedings, etc
Chapter4 - : DUTIES AND DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS OF BOARDS:
Section62 - Duties of Board: It shall be the duty of every Board, so far as the funds at its disposal permit, to make reasonable
Section64 - Discretionary functions of Board
Section65 - Power of fixponditure of educational, health and other purposes outside the cantonment
Chapter5 - : TAXES AND FEES:
Section66 - General power of taxation
Section67 - Charging of fees: The Board shall, for the following fees, namely
Section68 - Norms of property tax: Save as otherwise provided in this Act, the property tax shall be levied on lands and buildings
Section69 - Framing of preliminary proposals: When a resolution has been passed by the Board proposing to impose a tax under Sec
Section70 - Objections and disposal thereof
Section71 - Imposition of tax: The Central Government may authorise the Board to impose the tax either in the original form or, if
Section72 - Power of Central Government to issue directions to the Board
Section73 - Definition of "annual reteable value": For the purposes of this Chapter, "annual rateable value" means
Section74 - Incidence of taxation
Section75 - Assessment list: When a tax assessed on the annual rateable value of buildings or lands or both is imposed, the Chief
Section76 - Revision of assessment list
Section77 - Authentication of assessment list
Section78 - Evidential value of assessment list: Subject to such alterations as may thereafter be made in the assessment list under
Section79 - Amendment of assessment list
Section80 - Preparation of new assessment list: The Chief Executive Officer shall prepare a new assessment list at least once in
Section81 - Notice of transfers
Section82 - Notice of erection of buildings
Section83 - Demolition etc., of buildings: If any building is wholly or partly demolished or destroyed or otherwise deprived of
Section84 - Remission of tax: In a cantonment when any building or land has remained vacant and unproductive of rent for sixty or
Section85 - Power to require entry in assessment list of details of buildings
Section86 - Notice to be given of the circumstances in which remission or refund is claimed: No remission or refund under Sec. 84
Section87 - What buildings, etc., are to be deemed vacant
Section88 - Notice to be given of every occupation of vacant building or house
Section89 - Tax on buildings and land to be a charge thereon: A tax assessed on the innual rateable value of any building or land
Section90 - Inspection of imported goods, octroi, terminal tax and toll, etc.: Every person bringing or receiving any goods,
Section91 - Power to seize, etc
Section92 - Lease of octroi, terminal tax or toll: It shall be lawful for the Chief Executive Officer, with the previous sanction
Section93 - Appeals against assessment
Section94 - Costs of appeal: In every appeal the costs shall be in the discretion of the District Court hearing the appeal
Section95 - Recovery of costs from Board
Section96 - Conditions of right to appeal: No appeal shall be heard or determined under this Chapter unless
Section97 - Finality of appellate orders: The order of a District Court confirming, setting aside or modifying an order in respect
Section98 - Time and manner of payment of taxes: Save as otherwise expressly provided under this Act, any tax imposed under the
Section99 - Public notice for taxes due
Section100 - Notice of demand
Section101 - Recovery of tax
Section102 - Interest payable on taxes due
Section103 - Distress
Section104 - Disposal of distrained property
Section105 - Attachment and sale of immovable property
Section106 - Recovery from a person about to leave cantonment and refund of surplus sale proceeds, if any
Section107 - Power to institute suit for recovery: Instead of proceeding against a defaulter by distress and sale of movable
Section109 - Payment to, be made to a Board as service charges by Central Government or State Government: The Central or the State
Section110 - Power to make special provision for conservancy in certain cases: A Board may make special provisions for the cleansing
Section111 - Exemption in case of buildings
Section112 - General Power of exemption: The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exempt, either wholly
Section113 - Exemption of poor persons: A Board may exempt, for a period not exceeding one year at a time from the payment of any
Section114 - Composition
Section116 - Obligation to disclose liability
Section117 - Immaterial error not to affect liability: No assessment and no charge or demand on account of any tax or fee shall be
Section118 - Distraint not to be invalid by reason of immaterial defect: No distress levied or attachment made under this Chapter
Chapter6 - : CANTONMENT FUND AND PROPERTY:
Section119 - Cantonment fund and cantonment development fund
Section120 - Custody of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund
Section121 - Power of Board of borrow money: A Board may from time to time by a resolution passed in this behalf borrow money from
Section122 - Property: Subject to any special reservation made by the Central Government all property of the nature hereinafter in
Section123 - Application of cantonment fund, cantonment development fund and property: The cantonment, fund, cantonment development
Section124 - Acquisition of immovable property: When there is any hindrance to the permanent or temporary acquisition upon payment
Section125 - Power to make rules regarding cantonment fund, cantonment development fund and property: The Central Government may
Chapter7 - : CONTRACTS:
Section126 - Contracts by whom to be executed: Subject to the provisions of this Chapter, every Board shall be competent to enter
Section127 - Sanction
Section128 - Execution of contract
Section129 - Contracts improperly executed not to be binding on a Board: If any contract is executed by or on behalf of a Board,
Chapter8 - : SANITATION AND THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASE:
Section130 - Responsibility for sanitation The following officers shall, for the purposes of sanitation, have control over, and be
Section131 - General duties of Health Officer
Section132 - Public latrines, urinals and conservancy establishments: All public latrines and urinals provided or maintained by a
Section133 - Duty of occupier to collect and deposit rubbish, etc
Section134 - Power of Board to undertake private conservancy arrangement
Section135 - Deposits and disposal of rubbish, etc
Section136 - Cesspools, receptacles, for filth, etc.: The Chief Executive Officer of any cantonment may, by notice in writing
Section137 - Filling up of tank, etc
Section138 - Provision of latrines, etc.: The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing, require the owner or lessee of any
Section139 - Sanitation in factories, etc: Every person employing, whether on behalf of the Government or otherwise, more than ten
Section140 - Private latrines: Subject to the provisions of the Employment of Manual Scavenger and Construction of Dry Latrine
Section141 - Special provisions for collection of rubbish and solid waste management
Section142 - Removal of congested buildings
Section143 - Overcrowding of dwelling houses
Section144 - Power to require repair or alteration of building
Section145 - Power to require land or building to be cleansed
Section146 - Prohibition in respect of air pollutant: No owner, occupier, lessee or any other occupant of the premises shall allow
Section147 - Power to order disuse of house: If a Board is satisfied that any building pr part of a building in the cantonment which
Section148 - Removal of noxious vegetation: The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing, require the owner, lessee, or
Section149 - Agricultural and irrigation: Where, in the opinion of a Board, the cultivation in the cantonment of any description of
Section150 - Power to call for information regarding burial and burning grounds: The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in
Section151 - Permission for use of new burial or burning ground
Section152 - Power to require closing of burial or burning ground
Section153 - Exemption from operation of Secs.150 to 152: The provisions of
Section154 - Removal of corpses: The Board may, by public notice, prescribe routes in the cantonment by which alone corpses may be
Section155 - Obligation concerning infectious, contagious or communicable diseases
Section156 - Blood bank: Subject to the provisions of any Act made in this regard and the rules and regulations made thereunder,
Section157 - Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases
Section158 - Power to require names of dairyman's customers: Where it is certified to the Chief Executive Officer by a medical
Section159 - Power to require names of a washerman's customers: Where it is certified to the Chief Executive Officer by the Health
Section160 - Power to require names of patients or customers of a medical practitioner or paramedical workers: Where it is certified
Section161 - Report after inspection of dairy or washerman or medical practitioner's place of business: Where, after inspection the
Section162 - Action on report submitted by Health Officer: Upon receipt of a report submitted by the Health Officer under Sec. 161,
Section163 - Examination of milk, washed clothes or needles, syringes, etc.: The Health Officer or a doctor in the employment of the
Section164 - Contamination of public conveyance: Whoever in a cantonment
Section165 - Disinfection of public conveyance
Section166 - Penalty for failure to report: Whoever fails to make to the Chief Executive Officer any report which he is required to
Section167 - Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease: Notwithstanding
Section168 - Disinfection of building or articles therein: Where a Board is, upon the advice of the Health Officer, of opinion that
Section169 - Destruction of infectious hut or shed
Section170 - Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed building or shed: The Board shall provide free of charge
Section171 - Disinfection of building before letting the same
Section172 - Disposal of infected article without disinfection: No person shall, without previous disinfection of the same, give,
Section173 - Means of disinfection
Section174 - Making or selling of food, etc., or washing clothes by infected person: Whoever, while suffering from, or in
Section175 - Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink: When a cantonment is visited or threatened by an outbreak of any
Section176 - Control over wells, tanks, etc
Section177 - Disposal of infectious corpse: Where any person has died in a cantonment from any infectious or contagious disease, the
Section178 - Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries
Section179 - Medical supplies, appliances, etc
Section180 - Free patients: At every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under Sec. 178, the sick poor of the cantonment, and
Section181 - Paying patients: Any sick person who is ineligible to receive medical or surgical treatment free of cost in any
Section182 - Power to order person to attend hospital or dispensary
Section183 - Power to exclude from cantonment persons refusing to attend hospital or dispensary
Section184 - Routes for pilgrims and others
Section185 - Conditions of service of safai karamcharis and others
Chapter9 - : WATER-SUPPLY, DRAINAGE AND SEWAGE COLLECTION:
Section186 - Maintenance of water-supply
Section187 - Terms of water-supply: In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words and expression in
Section188 - Board to carry out survey and formulate proposals
Section189 - Control over sources of public water-supply
Section190 - Power to require maintenance or closing of private source of public drinking water-supply: The Chief Executive Officer
Section191 - Supply of water
Section192 - Power to require water-supply to be taken: If it appears to the Chief Executive Officer that any building or land in
Section193 - Supply of water under agreement
Section194 - Board not liable for failure of supply: Notwithstanding any obligation imposed on Boards under this Act, a Board shall
Section195 - Conditions of universal application: Notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained or contained in any agreement under
Section196 - Supply to persons outside cantonment: A Board may allow any person not residing within the limits of the cantonment to
Section197 - Penalty: Whoever
Section198 - Power of Board to lay wires, connections, etc.: A Board may carry any cable, ' wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel of
Section199 - Wires, etc., laid above surface of ground: In the event of any cable, wire, pipe, drain, sewer or channel being laid or
Section200 - Connection with main not to be made without permission: No person shall, for any purpose whatsoever, without the
Section201 - Power to prescribed ferrules and to establish meters, etc.: The Chief Executive Officer may prescribe the size of the
Section202 - Power of inspection: The ferrules, communication pipes, connections, meters, stand pipes and all fittings thereon or
Section203 - Power to fix rates and charges: A Board may fix the charges to be made for the establishment by them or through their
Section204 - Government water-supply
Section205 - Water supply for domestic consumption
Section206 - Recovery of charges: In any case in which the provisions of
Section207 - Supply of water from Government water-supply to the Board
Section208 - Functions of the Board in relation to distribution of bulk supply: Where under the provisions of sub-sec
Section209 - Special provisions concerning drainage and sewage
Section210 - Construction of and control of drains and sewage collection and disposal works
Section211 - Certain matters not to be passed into cantonment drains: No person shall throw, empty or turn into any cantonment drain
Section212 - Application by owners and occupiers to drain into cantonment drains
Section213 - Drainage of undrained premises
Section214 - New premises not to be erected with out drains
Section215 - Power to drain group or block of premises by combined operations
Section216 - Power to close or limit the use of private drains in certain cases: Where a drain connecting any premises with a
Section217 - Use of drain by a person other than the owner
Section218 - Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct: Wherever it is provided in this Chapter that steps shall or may be taken
Section219 - Power to require owner to carry out certain works for satisfactory drainage: For the purposes of efficient drainage of
Section220 - Appointment of places for the emptying of drains and collection of sewage: The Chief Executive Officer may cause any or
Section221 - Connection with water works and drains not to be made without permission: Without the written permission of the Chief
Section222 - Buildings, railways and private streets not to be erected for constructed over drains or water works without permission
Section223 - Rights of user of property for aqueducts, lines, etc
Section225 - Power to require railway level, etc., to be raised or lowered: If the Board places or carries any pipe or drain or does
Section226 - Power of execute work after giving notice to the person liable
Section227 - Power to affix shafts, etc., for ventilation of drain or cesspool: For the purpose of ventilating any drain or
Section228 - Power to examine and test drains, etc., believed to be defective
Section229 - Bulk delivery of sewage by the Board
Section230 - Employment of Government agencies for repair, etc.: The Central Government may, for reason to be recorded, direct that
Section231 - Works to be done by licensed plumber
Section232 - Prohibition of certain acts
Chapter10 - : TOWN PLANNING AND CONTROL OVER BUILDINGS, ETC. :
Section233 - Preparation of land use plan
Section234 - Sanction for building: No person shall erect or re- erect a building on any land in a cantonment
Section235 - Notice of new buildings
Section236 - Conditions of valid notice
Section237 - Powers of Board under certain sections exercisable by Chief Executive Officer: The powers, duties and functions of the
Section238 - Power of Board to sanction or refuse
Section239 - Order of stoppage of building or works in certain cases and disposal of things removed
Section240 - Power to sanction general scheme for prevention of overcrowding etc.: The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the
Section241 - Compensation
Section242 - Completion notice: Every person to whom sanction for the erection or re-erection of any building in any area in a
Section243 - Lapse of sanction: Every sanction for the erection or re-erection of a building given or deemed to have been given as
Section244 - Restrictions on use of buildings
Section245 - Period for completion of building: A Board, when sanctioning the erection or re-erection of a building as hereinbefore
Section246 - Completion certificate: The Chief Executive Officer shall on receipt of the notice under
Section247 - Illegal erection and re-erection: Whoever begins, continues or completes the erection or re-erection of a building
Section248 - Power to stop erection or re-erection or to demolish
Section249 - Power to seal unauthorized constructions
Section250 - Courts not to entertain proceedings in certain cases
Section251 - Power to make bye-laws: A Board may make bye-laws prescribing
Section252 - Prohibition of structures or fixtures which cause obstruction in streets
Section253 - Unauthorised buildings over drains, etc: The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing require any person who
Section254 - Drainage and sewer connections
Section255 - Power to attach brackets for lamps and other accessories: The Chief Executive Officer may attach to the outside of any
Section256 - Maintenance of Roads
Section257 - Temporary occupation of street, and, etc
Section258 - Closing and opening of streets
Section259 - Names of streets and numbers of buildings
Section260 - Group Housing Schemes : A Board, may in accordance with the bye-laws framed for the purpose, allow the Group Housing
Section261 - Boundary walls, hedges and fences
Section262 - Felling, lopping and trimming of trees
Section263 - Digging of public land: Whoever, without the permission in writing of the Chief Executive Officer, digs up the surface
Section264 - Improper use of land
Section265 - Public markets and slaughter-houses
Section266 - Use of public market
Section267 - Power to transfer by public auction, etc
Section268 - Stallages, rents, etc., to be published: A copy of the table of stallages, rents and fees, if any, leviable in any
Section269 - Private markets and slaughter-houses
Section270 - Conditions of grant of license or private market or slaughter-house
Section271 - Penalty for keeping market or slaughter-house open without license, etc
Section272 - Penalty for using unlicensed market or slaughter-house: Whoever, knowing that any market or slaughter-house has been
Section273 - Prohibition and restriction of use of slaughter-houses
Section274 - Power to inspect slaughter-houses
Section275 - Power to regulate certain activities: A Board may, by order, regulate all or any of the following matters, namely
Section276 - Provisions of washing places
Section277 - Licenses required for carrying on of certain occupations
Section278 - Power to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences: If the Chief Executive Officer is of opinion that any
Section279 - Conditions which may be attached to licences: A licence granted to any person under
Section280 - Power to vary licence: If the Board is satisfied that any place used under a licence granted under this Chapter is a
Section281 - Carrying on trade, etc., without licence or in contravention of Sec.280: Whoever carries any trade, calling or
Section282 - Feeding animals on dirt, etc.: Whoever feeds or allows to be fed on filthy or deleterious substances any animal, which
Section283 - Powers of entry and seizure
Section284 - Import of cattle and flesh
Chapter12 - : SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS AND INTOXICATING DRUGS:
Section285 - unauthorized sale of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug: If within a cantonment, or within such limits adjoining a
Section286 - Unauthorised sale of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug: If within a cantonment, or within such limits adjoining a
Section287 - Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of things for offences against the two last foregoing sections
Section288 - Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes: The foregoing provisions of the Chapter shall not apply to
Chapter13 - : PUBLIC SAFETY AND SUPPRESSION OF NUISANCES:
Section289 - Penalty for causing nuisances
Section290 - Registration and control of dogs
Section291 - Traffic rule of the road: Whoever in driving, leading or propelling a vehicle along a street fails, except in a case of
Section292 - Use of inflammable materials for building purposes
Section293 - Stacking or collecting inflammable materials: A Board may, by a public notice, prohibit in any case where such
Section294 - Care of naked lights: No person shall set a naked light on or near any building in any street or other public place in
Section295 - Regulation of cinematographic and dramatic performances
Section296 - Discharging fire-works, fire-arms, etc: Whoever in a cantonment discharges any fire-arm or lets off fire works or
Section297 - power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe: Where in a cantonment any building, or wall, or anything
Section298 - Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purposes: The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing, require the
Chapter14 - : REMOVAL AND EXCLUSION FROM CANTONMENTS AND SUPPRESSION OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY:
Section299 - Power to remove brothls and prostitutes: The Officer Commanding the Station or the Board may, on receiving information
Section300 - Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitution
Section301 - Removal of persons from cantonment: If the Officer Commanding the Station or the Board is, after such inquiry as he or
Section302 - Removal and exclusion from cantonment of disorderly persons
Section303 - Removal and exclusion from cantonment of seditious person
Section304 - Penalty: Whoever
Chapter15 - : POWERS, PROCEDURES, PENALTIES AND APPEALS:
Section305 - Powers of entry: It shall be lawful for the President or the Vice-President of a Board, or the Chief Executive Officer,
Section306 - Power of inspection by member of a Board: A Board may by special order authorise or order any member to inspect any
Section307 - Power of inspection, etc
Section308 - Power to enter land, adjoining land where work is in progress
Section309 - Breaking into premises: It shall be lawful for any person, authorised by or under this Act to make any entry into any
Section310 - Entry to be made in the day time: Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no entry authorised by or under
Section311 - Owner's consent ordinarily to be obtained: Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no building or land shall
Section312 - Regard to be had to social and religious usages: When any place used as a human dwelling is entered under this Act, due
Section313 - Penalty for obstruction: Whoever obstructs or molests any person acting on behalf of the Board, who is not a public
Section314 - Arrest without warrant: Any member of the police force employed in a cantonment may, without a warrant, arrest any
Section315 - Duties of police officers: It shall be the duty of all police officers to give immediate information to the Board of
Section316 - Notices to fix reasonable time: Where any notice, order or requisition made under this Act or any other rule or bye-law
Section317 - Authentication and validity of notices issued by Board
Section318 - Service of notice, etc
Section319 - Method of giving notice: Every notice which, by or under this Act, is to be given or served as a public notice or as a
Section320 - Powers of Board in case of non-compliance with notice, etc.: In the event of non-compliance with the terms of any
Section321 - Occupier not to obstruct owner when complying with notice: If the owner of any property in respect of which a notice as
Section322 - Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner
Section323 - Relief to Agents and Trustees
Section324 - Method of recovery
Section325 - Application for a Committee of Arbitration: In the event of any disagreement as to the liability of a Board to pay any
Section326 - Procedure for convening Committee of Arbitration: When a Committee pf Arbitration is to be convened, the Board shall
Section327 - Constitution of the Committee of Arbitration
Section328 - No person to be nominated who has direct interest or whose services are not immediately available
Section329 - Meetings and powers of Committee of Arbitration
Section330 - (1) The decisions of every Committee of Arbitration shall be in accordance with the majority of votes taken at a
Section331 - Prosecutions: Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no court shall proceed to the trial of any offence made
Section332 - Composition of offence
Section333 - General penalty: Whoever, in any case in which a penalty is not expressly provided by this Act, fails to comply with
Section334 - Offences by companies
Section335 - Cancellation or suspension of licences, etc.: Where any person to whom a licence or written permission has been granted
Section336 - Recovery of amount payable in respect of damage to cantonment property: Where any person has incurred a penalty by
Section337 - Limitation for prosecution: No court shall try any person for an offence made punishable by or under this Act, after
Section338 - Protection of action of Board, etc: No suit or prosecution shall be entertained in any court against a Board or against
Section339 - Notice to be given of suits
Section340 - Appeals from executive orders
Section341 - Petition of Appeal
Section342 - Suspension of Action Pending Appeal: On the admission of an appeal from an order, contained in a notice issued under
Section343 - Revision
Section344 - Finality of the Appellate Orders: Save as otherwise provided in
Section345 - Right of appellant to be heard: No appeal shall be decided under this Chapter unless the appellant has been heard, or
Section346 - Power to make rules
Section347 - Supplemental provisions respecting rules
Section348 - Power to make bye-laws: Subject to the provisions of this Act and of the rules made thereunder, a Board may, in
Section349 - Penalty for breach of bye-laws
Section350 - Supplemental provisions regarding by-law and regulations
Section351 - Rules and bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase
Chapter17 - : SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS:
Section352 - Extension of certain provisions of the Act and rules to place beyond cantonments: The Central Government may, by
Section353 - Power to delegate functions to the President, etc
Section354 - Registration
Section355 - Validity of notices and other documents: No notice, order, requisition, licence, permission in writing or other such
Section356 - Admissibility of document or entry as evidence: A copy of any receipt, application, plan, notice, order or other
Section357 - Evidence by officer or employee of the Board: No officer or employee of a Board shall, in any legal proceeding to which
Section358 - Application of Act 4 of 1899: For the purposes of the Government Buildings Act, 1899, cantonments and Boards shall be
Section359 - Power to remove difficulties
Section360 - Repeals and saving
Schedule1 - : NOTICE OF DEMAND: SCHEDULE SECTION 1 TABLE SCHEDULE 2: FORM OF WARRANT: SCHEDULE SECTION 2 TABLE SCHEDULE 3: FORM OF I

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