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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 2006 Section 178

Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries

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Cantonments Act, 2006 Section 178 is part of Cantonments Act, 2006 - Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

1) A Board may--

(a) provide and maintain either within or without the cantonment as many hospitals and dispensaries as it thinks fit; or (b) make, upon such terms as it thinks fit to impose, a grant-in-aid to any hospital or dispensary or veterinary hospital, whether within or without the cantonment, not maintained by it.

(2) Every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under sub-section (1) shall have attached to it a ward or wards for the treatment of persons suffering from infectious or contagious diseases.

(3) The Medical Officer appointed by the Board shall be incharge of every Hospital and dispensary maintained or aided under this section and be responsible to the Health Officer for medical activities and to the Chief Executive Officer for over all administrative activities of the hospital.

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What does Cantonments Act, 2006 Section 178 provide?

Section Section 178 of the Cantonments Act, 2006 (Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries) is reproduced on this page as part of the Cantonments Act, 2006. 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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