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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 186

POWER TO MAKE BYE LAWS - Aa[Board] may make bye-laws prescribing

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 186 is part of Cantonments Act, 1924 - POWER TO MAKE BYE LAWS - Aa[Board] may make bye-laws prescribing. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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a) the manner in which notice of the intention to erect or re-erect a building in the cantonment shall be given to theb[Board or the Executive Officer, as the case may be,] and the information and plans to be furnished with the notice: c[(aa) the manner in which and the form in which a notice of completion of erection or re-erection of any building in the cantonment shall be given to the Board or the Executive Officer, as the case may be, and the information and plans to be furnished with the notice.]

(b) the type or description of buildings which may or may not, and the purpose for which a building may or may not, be erected or re-erected,g[in the cantonment or any part thereof]:

(c) the minimum cubic capacity of any room or rooms in a building which is to be erected or reerected: h[*]

(d) the fees payable.on provision by thea[Board] of plans or specifications of the type of buildings which may be erected in the cantonment or any part thereof. i[(e) the circumstances in which a mosque, temple or church or other sacred building may be erected or re-erected: and (f) with reference to the erection o.r re-erection of buildings, or of any class of building, all or any of the following matters, namely :-

(i) the line of frontage where the building abuts on a street:

(ii) the space to be left about the building to secure free circulation of air and facilities for scavenging and for the prevention of Fire:

(iii) the materials and method of construction to be used for external and party-walls, roofs and floors:

(iv) the position, the material and the method of construction ofd[stair-cases Fire places], chimneys, drains, latrines, privies, urinals and cesspools:

(v) height and slope of the roof above the uppermost floor upon which human beings are to live or cooking operations are to be carried on:

(vi) the level and width of the foundation, the level of the lowest floore[the stability of the structure and the protection of building from dampness arising from sub-soil]:

(vii) the number and height of the storeys of which the building may consist.

(viii) the means to be provided for egress from the building in case of Fire:

(ix) the safeguarding of wells from pollution; or (x) the materials and method of construction to be used for godowns intended for the storage of foodgrains inf[excess of feighteen quintals] in order to render them rat proof.] Act 15 of 1983. Clause 108.-This clause seeks to amendsection 136of the Act relating to the Boards power to make bye-laws in respect of certain matters. Under clause (a) of this section, a notice of intention to erect or re-erect a building in a cantonment should be given to the Board. Sub-clause (a) of this clause seeks to empower notices being given also to the Executive Officer. Sub-clause (b) seeks to insert a new clause in the section to empower the Board to make bye-laws to regulate the manner in which and the form in which a notice of completion of erection or re-erection of any building in the cantonment shall be given to the Board or the Executive Officer and the information and plans to be furnished with the notice. Sub-clause (c) seeks to amend clause (f) of the said section to make certain amendments of clarificatory nature. -C)az. of Ind.. 9-7-19K2. Pt. II. S. 2. Ext.. p. 55 (No. 26).

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Section Section 186 of the Cantonments Act, 1924 (POWER TO MAKE BYE LAWS - Aa[Board] may make bye-laws prescribing) 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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