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Cantonments Act, 1924 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....administration of cantonments the spirit of the reformed scheme of Government, recommended a complete revision and an algamation of the Cantonments Act(Act 15 of 1910) and the Cantonment Code, 1912, in order to bring into conformity with ordinary municipal law the system under which military cantonments are administered. The recommendations of the committee have now been examined by the Government of India and the conclusions arrived at are embodied in the BiH. The main features of the Rill are as follows:- (a) It is proposed to lake power to municipalize the government of those cantonments which contain a substantial civil population having no essential connection with or dependence upon the military administration. In other cantonments where these circumstances do not fully exist the administration of contanment. Affairs will be vested in the hands of the commanding officer of the cantonment, who for the purpose of the Act, will be constituted a corporation sole. The general effect will be that the Government authority will cease to be the purely executive .agency as at present. In the larger cantonments the existing cantonment committee will be replaced by a cantonment Board.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter X

Title: Sanitation and the Prevention and Treatment of Disease

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....and urinals to be kept clean and in proper order: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in the case of a factory to which the2[Factories Act, 194 (63 of 1948)], applies. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 89, for "Board" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 89, for "Indian Factories Act, 1911" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. Section 137 - Private latrines A1[Board] may, by notice in writing,-- (a) require the owner or other person having the control of any private latrine, or, urinal in the cantonment not to put the same to public use; or (b) where any plan for the construction of private latrines or urinals has been approved by the1[Board], and copies thereof may be obtained free of charge on application-- (i) require any person repairing or constructing any private latrine or urinal not to allow the same to be used until it has been inspected by or under the direction of the Health Officer and approved by him as conforming with such plan; or (ii) require any person having control of any private latrine or urinal to re-build or alter the same in accordance with such plan; or (c) require the owner.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 136

Title: Sanitation in Factories, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1924

Every person employing, whether on behalf of the Government or otherwise, more than ten workmen or labourers, and every person managing or having control of a market, school, theatre or other place of public resort, in a cantonment shall give notice of the fact to the1[Executive Officer], and shall provide such latrine and urinals, and shall employ such number of sweepers, as the1[Executive Officer] thinks fit, and shall cause the latrines and urinals to be kept clean and in proper order: Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in the case of a factory to which the2[Factories Act, 194 (63 of 1948)], applies. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 89, for "Board" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 89, for "Indian Factories Act, 1911" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 218

Title: Control over Sources of Public Water-supply

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) The 1 [Board] may, with the previous sanction of the 2 [Central Government], by public notice, declare any lake, stream, spring, well, tank, reservoir or other source, whether within or without the limits of the cantonment (other than a source of water-supply under the control of the 3 [Military Engineer] Services or the Public Works Department) from which water is or may be made available for the use of the public in the cantonment to be a source of public water-supply. (2) Every such source shall be under the control of the 1 [Board]. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 2. Substituted by The A.O. 1937, for "L.G.". 3. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 9, for "Military works".

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 169

Title: Control over Wells, Tanks, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....consider expedient to prevent the outbreak or spread of any such disease, (2) In the event of a cantonment or any part of a cantonment being visited or threatened by an outbreak of any infectious or contagious disease, the Health Officer or any person authorised by him in this behalf may, without notice and at any time, inspect and disinfect any well, tank or other place from which water is, or is likely to be, taken for the purposes of drinking, and may further take such steps as he thinks fit to ensure the purity of the water or to prevent the use of the same for drinking purposes. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Autority"

Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XVI

Title: Rules and Bye-laws

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....in the Official Gazette and in such other manner, if any, as the Central Government may direct and, on such publication, shall have effect as if enacted in this Act. 1[(3) Every rule made by the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 158 (w.e.f. 1-10-1983). 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 158, for "rules so made" (w.e.f. 1-10-1983). Section 282 - Power to make bye-laws Subject to the provisions of this Act and of the rules.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 282

Title: Power to Make Bye-laws

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....entertainment or resort; (15) the regulation of the ventilation, lighting, cleansing, drainage and water-supply of the buildings used for the manufacture or sale of aerated or other potable waters and of butter, milk, sweetmeats and other articles of food or drink for human consumption; (16) the matters regarding which conditions may be imposed by licences granted 6 [under section 124 or section 210]; (17) the control and supervision of places where dangerous or offensive trades are carried on so as to secure cleanliness therein or to minimise any injurious, offensive or dangerous effects arising or likely to arise therefrom; (18) the regulation of the erection of any enclosure, fence, tent, awning or other temporary structure of whatsoever material or nature on any land situated within the cantonment 4 [and the fees chargeable in respect thereof]; (19) the laying out of streets, and the regulation and prohibition of the erection of buildings without adequate provision being made for the laying out and location of streets; 4 [(19A) the form of and the particulars which shall be contained in a development scheme or an improvement scheme and the manner in which such.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter V

Title: Taxation

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....of such application]. ___________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 2. Inserted by Act 7 of 1931, section 4. 3. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 29. 4. Substituted by Act 26 of 1927, section 9, for "the tax payable thereon". 5 Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 48 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. Section 76 - Remission of tax In a cantonment1[* * *] when any building or land has remained vacant and unproductive of rent for2[sixty] or more consecutive days3[* * *] the4[Board] shall remit or refund, as the case may be,5[one-half of such portion of any tax] assessed on the annual value thereof6[* * *] as maybe proportionate to the number of days during which the said building or land has remained vacant and unproductive of rent: 7[Provided that in any cantonment which the Central Government, by notification in the Official Gazette, has declared to be a hill cantonment and in respect of which the Central Government by the same or a like notification has declared a portion of the year to be the season for the cantonment, when any building or land is leased for occupation through the season only, but the rent charged is.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Schedule V

Title: Appeals from Orders

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....of notice. between any source of public water- supply and any building or land to which water is supplied. 17 238 Notice directing disorderly person to District Magistrate Thirty days from service of notice).] remove from cantonment and prohibiting him form re-entering it without permission. _____________________________ 1.Substitutedby Act 15 of 1983, section 168, for Schedule V (w.e.f. 1-10-1983).

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 64

Title: Definition of "annual Value

State: Central

Year: 1924

For the purposes of this Chapter, "annual value" means-- (a) in the case of railway stations, hotels, colleges, schools, hospitals, factories and any other buildings which a1[Board] decides to assess under this clause, one-twentieth of the sum obtained by adding the estimated present cost of erecting the building to the estimated value of the land appertaining thereto, and (b) in the case of building or land not assessed under clause (a), the gross annual rent for which such building (exclusive of furniture or machinery therein) or such land is actually let or, where the building or land is not let or in the opinion of the1[Board] is let for a sum less than its fair letting value, might reasonably be expected to let from year to year: Provided that, where the annual value of any building is, by reason of exceptional circumstances, in the opinion of the1[Board], excessive if calculated in the aforesaid manner, the1[Board] may fix the annual value at any less amount which appears to it to be just. ___________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".