Act Text
Preamble1 - Cantonments Act, 2006
Section2 - Definitions In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,
Section4 - Alteration of limits of cantonments
Section5 - The effect of including area in cantonment When, by a notification under
Section6 - Disposal of cantonment fund 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 sections 6 and 7 Any cantonment fund or a cantonment development
Section9 - Limitation of operation of Act The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, exclude from the
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 Boards in special circumstances
Section14 - Term 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
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 - unless a period of five years has elapsed since the date of the decision of the authority; or
Section31 - Power to make rules regulation 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 Every officer or employee, permanent or temporary of a Board shall be
Section39 - Meetings
Section40 - Business to be transacted Subject to any regulation made by the Board under this Chapter, any business may be
Section41 - Quorum
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
Section262 - shall be exercised or discharged in respect of a civil area by the civil area committee: Provided that if the Health
Section149 - on health grounds, the matter may be referred to the Board by the President for decision
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
Section56 - Power to qverride decision of Board
Section57 - Power of 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
Section59 - Power of Central Government on a reference made under
Section60 - Supersession of Board
Section61 - Validity of proceedings, etc
Section63 - Power to manage property A Board may, subject to any conditions imposed by the Central Government, manage any
Section64 - Discretionary functions of Board
Section65 - Power of expenditure of educational, health and other purposes outside the cantonment
Section67 - Charging of fees The Board shall, for the purposes of this Act, charge 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
Section319 - publish a notice specifying
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 - Definitation of "annual rateable 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
Section79 - Amendment of assessment list
Section80 - Preparation of new assessment list The Chief Executive Officer shall prepare a hew assessment list at least once in
Section81 - Notice of transfers
Section82 - Notice of erection of buildings
Section83 - Demolition, etc.,if 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 clamed No remission or refund under
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 annual 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 - Inerest payable on taxes due
Section103 - Distress
Section104 - Disposal of destrained 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
Section108 - Board to be a Municipality for taxation purposes A Board shall be dVeemed to be a municipal committee for the
Section109 - Payment to made to a Boards as service charges by Central Govrnment or state Government The Central or the State
Section110 - Power 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
Section115 - Irrecoverable debts The Board may write off any sum due on account of any tax or rate or of the costs of recovering
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 reasons of immaterial defect No distress levied or attachment made under this Chapter
Section121 - for the execution of specific development projects
Section120 - Custody of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund
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 - Acqusition 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
Section127 - Sanction
Section128 - Execution of contract
Section129 - Contracts improperty executed not to be binding on a Board If any contract is executed by or on behalf of a Board,
Section131 - General duties of Health Officer
Section132 - Pubilc latrines,urinals and conservancy establishments AH 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 or part of a building in the cantonment
Section148 - Removal of noxious vegetation The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing, require the owner, lessee, or
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 burial or burning ground
Section152 - Power to require closing of burial or burning ground
Section153 - Exemption from operation of sections 150 to 152 The provisions of sections 150, 151 and 152 shall not apply in the
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 name of patients or customers of a medicals practitioner or paramedical workers Where it is
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
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 - Disinfectin of building or articles therein Where a Board is, upon the advice of the Health Officer, of opinion that
Section169 - Destruction of infection 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 desinfection 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,
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
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
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 sourece of public drinking water supply The Chief Executive
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
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 any
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 prescribe ferules and to establish matters, 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 of 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-section
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 cantonments drains No person shall throw, empty or turn into any cantonment
Section312 - 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 blockof premises by combined operations
Section216 - Power to drain group or block of premises by combined operations 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 purpose of efficient drainage of
Section220 - Appointment of places for the emptying of drains and collection of sewage The Chief Executive Officer may cause any
Section221 - Connection with water works and drains not to be made without premission Without the written permission of the Chief
Section224 - Power of owner of premises to place pipes and drains through land belonging to other persons
Section225 - Power to require railway level, etc., to be raised or lowered If the Board places or carries any pipe or drain or
Section226 - Power to 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
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 - Power of Board under certain sections exercisable by Chief Executive Officer The powers, duties and functions of the
Section248 - excluding the provisions to subsection
Section238 - Power of Board to sanction or refuse
Section339 - Order of stoppage of lbuilding 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 of re-erection Whoever begins, continues or completes the erection or re-erection of a building
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 - Probibition of structures or fixtures which cause obstruction in streets
Section253 - Unauthorised building over drains etc. The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing require any person who
Section254 - Drainage and sewer connections
Section255 - Power to attch brackets for lamps and other accessories The Chief Executive Officer may attach to the outside of any
Section256 - Maintenance of Road
Section257 - Temporary occupation of street, land, 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
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
Section340 - is preferred and the same is disposed of by the appellate authority under subsection
Section266 - Use of public market
Section267 - Power to transfer by public action, etc
Section268 - Stallages rents, etc. to be published A copy of the table of stallages, refits and fees, if any, leviable in any
Section269 - Private markets and slaughters- houses
Section270 - Conditions of grant of licence for private market or slaughter house
Section271 - Penalty for keeping market or slaughter-house open without licence, 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-house
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 - Provision of washing places
Section277 - Licences requird for carring 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
Section282 - Feeding animals on dirt, etc. Whoever feeds or allows to be fed on filthy or deleterious substances any animal, which
Section283 - Power of entry and seizure
Section284 - Import of cattle and flesh
Section286 - Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor if within a cantonment, or within any limits defined under
Section285 - (a) any person subject to, Army, Navy or Air Force law, otherwise than as a military officer or a soldier; or
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 this Chapter shall not apply
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
Section292 - Use of inflammable materials fors building purposes
Section293 - Stacking or collecting inflammable materials A Board may, by a public notice, prohibit in any case where such
Section294 - Cure 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 purpose The Chief Executive Officer may, by notice in writing, require the
Section300 - Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitutionn
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 of persons
Section304 - Penalty Whoever
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 ordinary to be obtained Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no building or land shall
Section313 - Penalty for obstruction Whoever obstructs or molests any person acting, on behalf of the Board, who is pot 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 fis reasonable time Where any notice, order or requisition made under this Act or any other rule or
Section317 - Authentication and validity of notices issued by board
Section318 - Service of notice, etc
Section320 - Power to 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
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 of Arbitration is to be convened, the Board shall
Section327 - Constitution of the committee of Arbitration
Section328 - Meetings and powers of committee of Arbitration
Section329 - Meetings and powers of committee of Arbitration
Section330 - Decisions of committee of Arbitration
Section331 - Prosecutions Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no court shall proceed to the trial of any offence
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
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
Section341 - Petition of Appeal
Section342 - Suspension of Action pending Appeal On the admission of an appeal from an order, other than an order contained in a
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
Section347 - Supplemental provisions respecting rules
Section346 - may be made either generally for all cantonments or for the whole or any part of any one or more cantonments
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 bye-laws and regulations
Section351 - Rules and bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase
Section353 - Power to delegate functions to the president, etc
Section354 - Registration
Section355 - Validity of notice 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
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 diffulties
Section360 - Repeals and savings
Section3 - remove water 3. 138 Notice requiring the owner Board Fifteen days from service of to provide latrine, urinal, notice
Section10 - drinking water supply 10. 192 Notice requiring the owner, Board Fifteen days from service of lessee or occupier of a
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