Act Info:Preamble1 - CANTONMENTS ACT, 1924
Chapter I
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Section2A - Rule of construction
Chapter II
Section3 - Definition of cantonments
Section4 - Alteration of limits of cantonments
Section5 - The effect of including area in cantonment
Section6 - Disposal of cantonment fund when area ceases to be a cantonment
Section7 - Disposal of cantonment fund when area ceases to be included in a cantonment
Section8 - Application of funds and property transferred under sections 6 and 7
Section9 - Limitation of operation of Act
ChapterIII - CANTONMENT BOARDS
Section10 - Cantonment Board and Executive Officer
Section11 - Incorporation of Cantonment Board
Section12 - Appointment of Executive Officer
Section13 - Constitution of Cantonment Boards
Section14 - Power to vary constitution of Boards in special circumstances
Section15 - Term of office of members
Section16 - Pilling of vacancies
Section17 - Vacancies in special cases
Section18 - Oath or affirmation
Section19 - Resignation
Section20 - President and Vice-President
Section21 - Term of office of Vice-President
Section22 - Duties of President
Section23 - Duties of Vice-President
Section24 - Appointment of Executive Officer
Section24A - Duties of Executive Officer
Section25 - Special power of the Executive Officer
Section26 - Electoral rolls
Section27 - Qualification of electors
Section28 - Qualification for being a member of the Board
Section29 - Interpretation
Section30 - Joint families, etc
Section31 - Power to make rules regulating elections
Section32 - Member not to vote on matter in which he is interested
Section33 - Liability of members
Section34 - Removal of members
Section35 - Consequences of removal
Section35A - Member of the Board to be deemed a public servant
Section36 - Disqualification of person as servant of Board
Section36A - Cantonment servant to be deemed a public servant
Section37 - Meetings
Section38 - Business to be transacted
Section39 - Quorum
Section40 - Presiding Officer
Section41 - Minutes
Section42 - Meetings to be public
Section43 - Method of deciding questions
Section43A - Committees for civil areas
Section44 - Power to make regulations
Section45 - Joint action with other local authority
Section45A - Report on administration
Section46 - Power of Central Government to require production of documents
Section47 - Inspection
Section48 - Power to call for documents
Section49 - Power to require execution of work, etc
Section50 - Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 49
Section51 - Power to override decision of Board
Section51A - Power of Central Government to review
Section52 - Power of Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, on reference under section 51 or otherwise
Section53 - Powers of Central Government on a reference made under section 51
Section54 - Supersession of Board
Section55 - Validity of proceedings, etc
Chapter IV
Section56 - Unauthorised sale of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug
Section57 - Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor
Section58 - Arrest of persons and seizure and contiscation of things for offences against the two last foregoing sections
Section59 - Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes
Chapter V
Section60 - General power of taxation
Section61 - Framing of preliminary proposals
Section62 - Objections and disposal thereof
Section63 - Imposition of tax
Section63A - Power of Central Government to issue directions to the Board
Section64 - Definition of "annual value
Section65 - Incidence of taxation
Section66 - Assessment list
Section67 - Publication of assessment list
Section68 - Revision of assessment list
Section69 - Authentication of assessment list
Section70 - Evidential value of assessment list
Section71 - Amendment of assessment list
Section72 - Preparation of new assessment list
Section73 - Notice of transfers
Section74 - Notice of erection of buildings
Section75 - Demolition, etc., of buildings
Section76 - Remission of tax
Section77 - Power to require entry in assessment list of details of buildings
Section77A - Notice to be given of the circumstances in which remission or refund is claimed
Section78 - What buildings, etc., are to be deemed vacant
Section79 - Notice to be given of every occupation of vacant building or house
Section80 - Tax on buildings and land to be a charge thereon
Section81 - Inspection of imported goods, etc
Section82 - Evasion of octroi or terminal tax
Section83 - Lease of octroi, terminal tax or toll
Section84 - Appeals against assessment
Section85 - Costs of appeal
Section86 - Recovery of costs from Board
Section87 - Conditions of right to appeal
Section88 - Finality of appellate orders
Section89 - Time and manner of payment of taxes
Section90 - Presentation of bill
Section91 - Notice of demand
Section92 - Recovery of tax
Section92A - Interest payable on taxes due
Section93 - Distress
Section94 - Disposal of distrained property
Section94A - Attachment and sale of immovable property
Section95 - Recovery from a person about to leave cantonment
Section96 - Power to institute suit for recovery
Section97 - Power to prohibit or exempt from taxation
Section98 - Power to make special provision for conservancy in certain cases
Section99 - Exemption in the case of buildings
Section99A - General power of exemption
Section100 - Exemption of poor persons
Section101 - Composition
Section102 - Irrecoverable debts
Section103 - Obligation to disclose liability
Section104 - Immaterial error not to affect liability
Section105 - Distraint not to be invalid by reason of immaterial defect
Chapter VI
Section106 - Cantonment fund
Section107 - Custody of cantonment fund
Section108 - Property
Section109 - Application of cantonment fund and property
Section110 - Acquisition of immovable property
Section111 - Power to make rules regarding cantonment fund and property
Chapter VII
Section112 - Contracts by whom to be executed
Section113 - Sanction
Section114 - Execution of contract
Section115 - Contracts improperly executed not to be binding on a Board
ChapterVIII - DUTIES AND DISCRETIONARY FUNCTIONS OF [BOARDS]
Section116 - Duties of Board
Section116A - Power to manage property
Section117 - Discretionary functions of Board
Section117A - Power of expenditure for educational purposes outside the cantonment
Chapter IX
Section118 - Penalty for causing nuisances
Section119 - Registration and control of dogs
Section120 - Rule of the road
Section121 - Use of inflammable materials for building purposes
Section122 - Stacking or collecting inflammable materials
Section123 - Care of naked lights
Section124 - Regulation of cinematographic and dramatic performance
Section125 - Discharging fire-works, fire-arms, etc
Section126 - Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe
Section127 - Enclosure of waste land used for improper purposes
Chapter X
Section128 - Responsibility for sanitation
Section129 - General duties of Health Officer
Section130 - Public latrines, urinals and conservancy establishments
Section130A - Duty of occupier to collect and deposit rubbish, etc
Section131 - Power of Board to undertake private conservancy arrangements
Section132 - Deposits and disposal of rubbish, etc
Section133 - Cesspools, receptacles, for filth, etc
Section134 - Filling up of tank, etc
Section135 - Provision of latrines, etc
Section136 - Sanitation in factories, etc
Section137 - Private latrines
Section138 - Removal of congested buildings
Section139 - Overcrowding of dwelling houses
Section140 - Power to require repair or alteration of building
Section141 - Power to require land or building to be cleansed
Section142 - Power to order disuse of house
Section143 - Removal of noxious vegetation
Section144 - Agriculture and irrigation
Section145 - Power to call for information regarding burial and burning grounds
Section146 - Permission for use of new burial or burning ground
Section147 - Power to require closing of burial or burning ground
Section148 - Exemption from operation of sections 145 to 147
Section149 - Removal of corpses
Section150 - Obligation concerning infectious or contagious diseases
Section151 - Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases
Section152 - Power to require names of dairyman's customers
Section153 - Power to require names of a washerman's customers
Section154 - Report after inspection of dairy or washerman's place of business
Section155 - Action on report submitted by Health Officer
Section156 - Examination of milk or washed clothes
Section157 - Contamination of public conveyance
Section158 - Disinfection of public conveyance
Section159 - Penalty for failure to report
Section160 - Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or-contagious disease
Section161 - Disinfection of building or articles therein
Section162 - Destruction of infectious hut or shed
Section163 - Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed building or shed
Section164 - Disinfection of building before letting the same
Section165 - Disposal of infected article without disinfection
Section166 - Means of disinfection
Section167 - Making or selling of food, etc., or washing clothes by infected person
Section168 - Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink
Section169 - Control over wells, tanks, etc
Section170 - Disposal of infectious corpse
Section171 - Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries
Section172 - Medical supplies, appliances, etc
Section173 - Free patients
Section174 - Paying patients
Section175 - Power to order person to attend hospital or dispensary
Section176 - Power to exclude from cantonment persons refusing to attend hospital or dispensary
Section177 - Routes for pilgrims and others
Section178 - Conditions of service of safaiwalas
Chapter XI
Section178A - Sanction for building
Section179 - Notice of new buildings
Section180 - Conditions of valid notice
Section180A - Powers of Board under certain sections exercisable by Executive Officer
Section181 - Power of Board to sanction or refuse
Section181A - Power to sanction general scheme for prevention, of overcrowding, etc
Section182 - Compensation
Section183 - Lapse of sanction
Section183A - Period for completion of building
Section183B - Completing notice
Section184 - Illegal erection and re-erection
Section185 - Power to stop erection or re-erection or to demolish
Section186 - Power to make bye-laws
Section187 - Projections and obstructions
Section188 - Unauthorised buildings over drains, etc
Section189 - Drainage and sewer connections
Section190 - Power to attach brackets for lamps
Section191 - Temporary occupation of street, land, etc
Section192 - Closing and opening of streets
Section193 - Names of streets and numbers of buildings
Section194 - Boundary walls, hedges and fences
Section195 - Felling, lopping and trimming of trees
Section196 - Digging of public land
Section197 - Improper use of land
Chapter XII
Section198 - Public markets and slaughter-houses
Section199 - Use of public market
Section200 - Power to transfer by public auction, etc
Section201 - Stallages, rents, etc., to be published
Section202 - Private markets and slaughter-houses
Section203 - Conditions of grant of licence for private market or slaughter-house
Section204 - Penalty for keeping market or slaughter-house open without licence, etc
Section205 - Penalty for using unlicensed market or slaughter-house
Section206 - Prohibition and restriction of use of slaughter-house
Section207 - Power to inspect slaughter-houses
Section208 - Power to make bye-laws
Section209 - Provision of washing places
Section210 - Licences required for carrying on of certain occupations
Section211 - Conditions which may be attached to licences
Section212 - Power to vary licence
Section213 - Carrying on trade, etc., without licence or in contravention of section 212
Section214 - Feeding animals on dirt, etc
Section215 - Powers of entry and seizure
Section216 - Import of cattle and flesh
Chapter XIII
Section217 - Maintenance of water-supply
Section218 - Control over sources of public water-supply
Section219 - Power to require maintenance or closing of private source of public drinking water-supply
Section220 - Supply of water
Section221 - Power to require water-supply to be taken
Section222 - Supply of water under agreement
Section223 - Board not liable for failure of supply
Section224 - Conditions of universal application
Section225 - Supply to persons outside cantonment
Section226 - Penalty
Section227 - Power of Board to lay wires, connections, etc
Section228 - Wires, etc., laid above surface of ground
Section229 - Connection with main not to be made without permission
Section230 - Power to prescribe ferrules and to establish meters, etc
Section231 - Power of inspection
Section232 - Power to fix rates and charges
Section233 - Government water-supply
Section234 - Recovery of charges
Section234A - Supply of water from Government water-supply to the Board
Section234B - Functions of the Board in relation to distribution of bulk supply
Chapter XIV
Section235 - Power to remove brothels and prostitutes
Section236 - Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitution
Section237 - Removal of lewd persons from cantonment
Section238 - Removal and exclusion from cantonments of disorderly persons
Section239 - Removal and exclusion from cantonment of seditious persons
Section240 - Penalty
Chapter XV
Section241 - Powers of entry
Section242 - Power of inspection by Member of a Board
Section243 - Power of inspection, etc
Section244 - Power to enter land adjoining land where work is in progress
Section245 - Breaking into premises
Section246 - Entry to be made in the day time
Section247 - Owner's consent ordinarily to be obtained
Section248 - Regard to be had to social and religious usages
Section249 - Penalty for obstruction
Section250 - Arrest without warrant
Section251 - Duties of police officers
Section252 - Notices to fix reasonable time
Section253 - Authentication and validity of notices issued by Board
Section254 - Service of notice, etc
Section255 - Method of giving notice
Section256 - Powers of Board in case of non-compliance with notice, etc
Section256A - Occupier not to obstruct owner when complying with notice
Section257 - Liability of occupier to pay in default of owner
Section258 - Relief to agents and trustees
Section259 - Method of recovery
Section260 - Application for a Committee of Arbitration
Section261 - Procedure for convening Committee of Arbitration
Section262 - Constitution of Committee of Arbitration
Section263 - No person to be nominated who has direct interest or whose services are not immediately available
Section264 - Meetings and powers of Committees of Arbitration
Section265 - Decisions of Committee of Arbitration
Section266 - Prosecutions
Section267 - Composition of offence
Section268 - General penalty
Section268A - Offences by companies
Section269 - Cancellation or suspension of licences, etc
Section270 - Recovery of amount payable in respect of damage to cantonment property
Section271 - Limitation for prosecution
Section272 - Protection of Board, Executive Officer, etc
Section273 - Notice to be given of suits
Section274 - Appeals from executive orders
Section275 - Petition of appeal
Section276 - Suspension of action pending appeal
Section277 - Revision
Section278 - Finality of appellate orders
Section279 - Right of appellant to be heard
Chapter XVI
Section280 - Power to make rules
Section281 - Supplemental provisions respecting rules
Section282 - Power to make bye-laws
Section283 - Penalty for breach of bye-laws
Section284 - Supplemental provisions regarding bye-laws
Section285 - Rules and bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase
Chapter XVII
Section286 - Extension of certain provisions of the Act and rules to place beyond cantonments
Section286A - Power to delegate functions to the President, etc
Section287 - Registration
Section288 - Validity of notices and other documents
Section289 - Admissibility of document or entry as evidence
Section290 - Evidence by officer or servant of the Board
Section291 - Application of Act 4 of 1899
Section292 - Repeals
ScheduleI - NOTICE OF DEMAND
ScheduleII - FORM OF WARRANT
ScheduleIII - FORM OF INVENTORY OF PROPERTY DISTRAINED AND NOTICE OF SALE
ScheduleIV - CASES IN WHICH POLICE MAY ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT
ScheduleV - APPEALS FROM ORDERS
ScheduleVI - Enactments repealed
Amending ActI - THE CANTONMENT LAWS (EXTENSION AND AMENDMENT ACT, 1950