Act Info:Preamble1 - CANTONMENTS ACT, 2006
Chapter I
Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions
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 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
Section9 - Limitation of operation of Act
Chapter III
Section10 - Cantonment Board
Section11 - Incorporation of Cantonment Board
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
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
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 regulation 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
Section36 - Member of the Board to be deemed a public servant
Section37 - Disqualification of person as an employee of Board
Section38 - Cantonment employee to be deemed a public
Section39 - Meetings
Section40 - Business to be transacted
Section41 - Quorum
Section42 - Presiding Officer
Section43 - Minutes
Section44 - Meetings to be public
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
Section52 - Inspection
Section53 - Power to call for documents
Section54 - Power to require execution of work etc.
Section55 - Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 54
Section56 - Power to qverride decision of Board
Section57 - Power of Central Government to review
Section58 - Power of General Officer Commanding- in chief, the Command, on reference under section 56 or otherwise
Section59 - Power of Central Government on a reference made under section 56
Section60 - Supersession of Board
Section61 - Validity of proceedings, etc.
Chapter IV
Section62 - Duties of Board
Section63 - Power to manage property
Section64 - Discretionary functions of Board
Section65 - Power of expenditure of educational, health and other purposes outside the cantonment
Chapter V
Section66 - General power of taxation
Section67 - Charging of fees
Section68 - Norms of property tax
Section69 - Framing of preliminary proposals
Section70 - Objections and disposal thereof
Section71 - Imposition of tax
Section72 - Power of Central Government to issue directions to the Board
Section73 - Definitation of "annual rateable value"
Section74 - Incidence of taxation
Section75 - Assessment list
Section76 - Revision of assessment list
Section77 - Authentication of assessment list
Section78 - Evidential value of assessment list
Section79 - Amendment of assessment list
Section80 - Preparation of new assessment list
Section81 - Notice of transfers
Section82 - Notice of erection of buildings
Section83 - Demolition, etc.,if buildings
Section84 - Remission of tax
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
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
Section90 - Inspection of imported goods, octroi, terminal tax and toll, etc.
Section91 - Power to seize etc.
Section92 - Lease of octroi, terminal tax or toll
Section93 - Appeals against assessment
Section94 - Costs of appeal
Section95 - Recovery of costs from Board
Section96 - Conditions of right to appeal
Section97 - Finality of appellate orders
Section98 - Time and manner of payment of taxes
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
Section108 - Board to be a Municipality for taxation purposes
Section109 - Payment to made to a Boards as service charges by Central Govrnment or state Government
Section110 - Power make special provision for conservancy in certain cases
Section111 - Exemption in case of buildings
Section112 - General power of exemption
Section113 - Exemption of poor persons
Section114 - Composition
Section115 - Irrecoverable debts
Section116 - Obligation to disclose liability
Section117 - Immaterial error not to affect liability
Section118 - Distraint not to be invalid by reasons of immaterial defect
Chapter VI
Section119 - Cantonment fund and cantonment develop
Section120 - Custody of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund
Section121 - Power of Board to borrow money
Section122 - Property
Section123 - Application of cantonment fund, cantonment development fund and property
Section124 - Acqusition of immovable property
Section125 - Power to make rules regarding cantonment fund, cantonment development fund and property
Chapter VII
Section126 - Contracts by whom to be executed
Section127 - Sanction
Section128 - Execution of contract
Section129 - Contracts improperty executed not to be binding on a Board
Chapter VIII
Section130 - Responsibility for sanitation
Section131 - General duties of Health Officer
Section132 - Pubilc latrines,urinals and conservancy establishments
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.
Section137 - Filling up of tank etc.
Section138 - Provision of latrines, etc.
Section139 - Sanitation in factories, etc.
Section140 - Private latrines
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
Section147 - Power to order disuse of house
Section148 - Removal of noxious vegetation
Section149 - Ariculture and irrigation
Section150 - Power to call for information regarding burial and burning grounds
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
Section154 - Removal of corpses
Section155 - Obligation concerning infectious, contagious or communicable diseases
Section156 - Blood bank
Section157 - Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases
Section158 - Power to require names of dairyman`s customers
Section159 - Power to require names of a washerman`s customers
Section160 - Power to require name of patients or customers of a medicals practitioner or paramedical workers
Section161 - Report after inspection of dairy or washerman or medical practitioner`s place of business
Section162 - Action on report submitted by Health Officer
Section163 - Examination of milk washed clothes or needles, syringes, etc.
Section164 - Contamination of public conveyance
Section165 - Disinfection of public conveyance
Section166 - Penalty for failure to report
Section167 - Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease
Section168 - Disinfectin of building or articles therein
Section169 - Destruction of infection hut or shed
Section170 - Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed building or shed
Section171 - Disinfection of building before letting the same
Section172 - Disposal of infected article without desinfection
Section173 - Means of disinfection
Section174 - Making or selling of food etc., or washing clothes by infected person
Section175 - Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink
Section176 - Control over wells, tanks, etc.
Section177 - Disposal of infectious corpse
Section178 - Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries
Section179 - Medical supplies appliances, etc.
Section180 - Free patients
Section181 - Paying patients
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
Chapter IX
Section186 - Maintenance of water-supply
Section187 - Terms of water supply
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
Section191 - Supply of water
Section192 - Power to require water supply to be taken
Section193 - Supply of water under agreement
Section194 - Board not liable for failure of supply
Section195 - Conditions of universal application
Section196 - Supply to persons outside cantonment
Section197 - Penalty
Section198 - Power of Board to lay wires connections etc.
Section199 - Wires etc., laid above surface of ground
Section200 - Connection with main not to be made without permission
Section201 - Power to prescribe ferules and to establish matters, etc.
Section202 - Power of inspection
Section203 - Power of fix rates and charges
Section204 - Government water supply
Section205 - Water supply for domestic consumption
Section206 - Recovery of charges
Section207 - Supply of water from Government water-supply to the Board
Section208 - Functions of the Board in relation to distribution of bulk supply
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
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
Section217 - Use of drain by a person other than the owner
Section218 - Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct
Section219 - Power to require owner to carry out certain works for satisfactory drainage
Section220 - Appointment of places for the emptying of drains and collection of sewage
Section221 - Connection with water works and drains not to be made without premission
Section122 - Buildings railways and private streets not to be erected or constructed over drains or water works without permission
Section123 - Right of user of property for aqueducts lines etc.
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
Section226 - Power to execute work after giving notice to the person liable
Section227 - Power to affix shafts, etc., for ventilation of drain or cesspool
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.
Section231 - Works to be done by licensed plumber
Section232 - Prohibition of certain acts
Chapter X
Section233 - Preparation of land use plan
Section234 - Sanction for building
Section235 - Notice of new buildings
Section236 - Conditions of valid notice
Section237 - Power of Board under certain sections exercisable by Chief Executive Officer
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.
Section241 - Compensation
Section242 - Completion notice
Section243 - Lapse of sanction
Section244 - Restrictions on use of buildings
Section245 - Period for completion of building
Section246 - Completion certificate
Section247 - Illegal erection of re-erection
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
Section252 - Probibition of structures or fixtures which cause obstruction in streets
Section253 - Unauthorised building over drains etc.
Section254 - Drainage and sewer connections
Section255 - Power to attch brackets for lamps and other accessories
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
Section261 - Boundary walls hedges and fences
Section262 - Felling lopping and trimming of trees
Section263 - Digging of public land
Section264 - Improper use of land
Chapter XI
Section265 - Public markets and slaughter-houses
Section266 - Use of public market
Section267 - Power to transfer by public action, etc.
Section268 - Stallages rents, etc. to be published
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
Section273 - Prohibition and restriction of use of slaughter-house
Section274 - Power to inspect slaughter-houses
Section275 - Power to regulate certain activities
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
Section279 - Conditions which may be attached to licences
Section280 - Power to vary licence
Section281 - Carrying on trade, etc., without licence or in contravention of section 280
Section282 - Feeding animals on dirt, etc.
Section283 - Power of entry and seizure
Section284 - Import of cattle and flesh
Chapter XII
Section285 - Unauthorised sale of spirituous liquor of intoxicating drug
Section286 - Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor
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
Chapter XIII
Section289 - Penalty for causeing nuisances
Section290 - Registration and control of dogs
Section291 - Traffic rule of the road
Section292 - Use of inflammable materials fors building purposes
Section293 - Stacking or collecting inflammable materials
Section294 - Cure of naked lights
Section295 - Regulation of cinematographic and dramatic performances
Section296 - Discharging fire-works fire-arms etc.
Section297 - Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe
Section298 - Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purpose
Chapter XIV
Section299 - Power to remove brothels and prostitutes
Section300 - Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitutionn
Section301 - Removal of persons from cantonment
Section302 - Removal and exclusion from cantonment of disorderly persons
Section303 - Removal and exclusion from cantonment of seditious of persons
Section304 - Penalty
Chapter XV
Section305 - Powers of entry
Section306 - Power of inspection by member of a Board
Section307 - Power of inspection etc.
Section308 - Power to enter land, adjoining land where work is in progress
Section309 - Breaking into premises
Section310 - Entry to be made in the day time
Section311 - Owner`s consent ordinary to be obtained
Section312 - Regard to be had social and religious usages
Section313 - Penalty for obstruction
Section314 - Arrest without warrant
Section315 - Duties of police officers
Section316 - Notices to fis reasonable time
Section317 - Authentication and validity of notices issued by board
Section318 - Service of notice, etc.
Section319 - Method o giving notice
Section320 - Power to Board in case of non compliance with notice, etc.
Section321 - Occupier not to obstruct owner when complying with 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
Section326 - Procedure for convening committee of Arbitration
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
Section332 - Composition of offence
Section333 - General penalty
Section334 - Offences by companies
Section335 - Cancellation or suspension of licences, etc.
Section336 - Recovery of amount payable in respect of damage to cantonment property
Section337 - Limitation for prosecution
Section338 - Protection of action of Board, etc.
Section339 - Notice to be given of suits
Section340 - Appeals from executive orders
Section341 - Petition of Appeal
Section342 - Suspension of Action pending Appeal
Section343 - Revision
Section344 - Finality of the Appellate Orders
Section345 - Right of appellant to be heard
Chapter XVI
Section346 - Power to make rules
Section347 - Supplemental provisions respecting rules
Section348 - Power to make bye-laws
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
Chapter XVII
Section352 - Extension of certain provisions of the Acti and rules to place beyond cantonments
Section353 - Power to delegate functions to the president, etc.
Section354 - Registration
Section355 - Validity of notice and other documents
Section356 - Admissibility of document or entry as evidence
Section357 - Evidence by officer or employee of the Board
Section358 - Application of Act 4 of 1899
Section359 - Power to remove diffulties
Section360 - Repeals and savings
ScheduleI - FIRST SCHEDULE
ScheduleII - SECOND SCHEDULE
ScheduleIII - THIRD SCHEDULE
ScheduleIV - FOURTH SCHEDULE
ScheduleV - FIFTH SCHEDULE