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Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter I

Title: Preliminary

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....under this Act to be the Executive Officer of a cantonment; 13 [(xiiia) "factory" means a factory as defined in clause(m) of section 2 of the Factories Act, 1948 (63 of 1948); (xiiib) "Forces" means the Army, Navy and Air Force or any part of any one or more of them;] (xiv) "Health Officer" means the senior executive medical officer in military employ on duty in a cantonment; 14 [(xv) "hospital" includes family welfare centre, child welfare centre, maternity centre and health centre;] (xvi) "hut" means any building, no material portion of which above the plinth level is constructed of masonry or of squared timber framing or of iron framing; (xvii) "infections or contagious disease" means cholera, leprosy, enteric fever, small­pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, plague, influenza, venereal disease, and any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the 15 [Central Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be, an infectious or contagious disease for the purposes of this Act; (xviii) "inhabitant", in relation to a cantonment, or to cal area, means any person ordinarily residing or carrying on business or owning or occupying.....

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 175

Title: Power to Order Person to Attend Hospital or Dispensary

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) If the Health Officer or the medical officer in-charge of a hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 171 has reason to believe that any person living in the cantonment is suffering from an infectious or contagious disease, he may, by notice in writing, call upon such person to attend for examination at any such hospital or dispensary at such time as may be specified in the notice and not to quit it without the permission of the medical officer-in-charge; and, on the arrival of such person at the hospital or dispensary, the medical officer-in-charge thereof may examine him for the purpose of satisfying himself whether or not such person is suffering from an infectious or contagious disease: Provided that, if, having regard to the nature of the disease or the condition of the person suffering therefrom, or the general environment and circumstances of such person, the Health Officer or medical officer, as the case may be, considers that the attendance of such person at a hospital or dispensary is likely to prove unnecessary or inexpedient, he shall examine such person at such person's own residence. (2) If any person on examination under sub-section (1), is.....

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 185

Title: Power to Stop Erection or Re-erection or to Demolish

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....not be carried into effect or shall be carried into effect with modifications specified by him : Provided that the Board shall pay to the owner of the building compensation for any loss actually incurred by him in consequence of the demolition or alteration of any building which has been erected or re-erected prior to the date on which the order of the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, has been communicated to him.] ________________________ 1. The original section 185 was re-numbered as sub-section (1) of that section by Act 24 of 1936, section 51. 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 3. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 51. 4. Substituted by Act 2 of 1954, section 17, for "six months". 5. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 51.

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 184

Title: Illegal Erection and Re-erection

State: Central

Year: 1924

Whoever begins, continues or completes the erection or re-erection of a building-- (a) without having given a valid notice as required by sections 179 and 180, or before the building has been sanctioned or is deemed to have been sanctioned, or (b) without complying with any direction made under sub-section (1) of section 181, or (c) when sanction has been refused, or has ceased to be available1[or has been suspended by the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 52], shall be punishable with fine which may extend to2[five thousand rupees]. ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 50. 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 107, for "five hundred rupees" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 182

Title: Compensation

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) No compensation shall be claimable by any person for any damage or loss which he may sustain in consequence of the refusal of the1[Board] of sanction to the erection of any building or in respect of any direction issued by it under sub-section (1) of section 181. (2) The1[Board] shall make compensation to the owner of any building for any actual damage or loss sustained by him in consequence of the prohibition of the re-erection of any building or of its requiring any land belonging to him to be added to the street: Provided that the1[Board] shall not be liable to make any compensation in respect of the prohibition of the re-erection of any building which for a period of three years or more immediately preceding such refusal has not been in existence or has been unfit for human habitation. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 181

Title: Power of Board to Sanction or Refuse

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....a further period of fifteen days from the date of such communication theBoard shall be deemed to have given sanction to the erection or re-erection, asthe case may be, unconditionally : Providedthat, in any case to which the provisions of sub-section (3) apply, the periodof one month herein specified shall be reckoned from the date on which the Boardhas received the report referred to in that sub-section.] ________________________ 1.Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 2.Sub-sections (2) to (6) Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 47, for theoriginal sub-sections (2), (3) and (4). 3.Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 104, for sub-section (2) w.e.f.1-10-1983. 4.Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 104, for "Military EstatesOfficer" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 5.Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 104 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XI

Title: Control over Buildings, Streets, Boundaries, Trees, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....until the information required under sub-section (1) and any further information and plans which may be required under bye-laws made under this Act have been furnished to the satisfaction of the1[Board or the Executive Officer, as the case may be,] along with the notice. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 102, for "Board" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. Section 180A - Powers of Board under certain sections exercisable by Executive Officer 1[180A. Powers of Board under certain sections exercisable by Executive Officer The powers, duties and functions of the Board under section 181, sub-section (1) of section 182, section 183, section 183 A and section 185 [excluding the provisions to sub­section (1) and the proviso to sub-section (2) of the said section 185] shall be exercised or discharged in a civil area by the Executive Officer.] ________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 103 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. Section 181 - Power of Board to sanction or refuse (1)The 1 [Board] may either refuse to sanction the erection orre-erection, as the case may be, of the building, or may sanction it eitherabsolutely or subject to such.....

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 178

Title: Conditions of Service of Safaiwalas

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....Government] may, by notification in the Official Gazette, direct that on and from such date as may be specified in the notification, the provisions of this section shall apply in the case of any specified class of servants employed by a2[Board] whose functions intimately concern the public health or safety. (3) For the purpose of this section4["safaiwala" includes any lower grade employee] employed by a2[Board] in the removal or disposal of filth or rubbish. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 99, for "sweeper" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 3. Substituted by the A.O. 1937 for "L.G.". 4. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 99, for ' "sweeper" includes any menial servant', w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 176

Title: Power to Exclude from Cantonment Persons Refusing to Attend Hospital or Dispensary

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....or that any person has failed to comply with any direction given to him under section 175 the1[Officer Commanding the station] may, by order in writing, direct such person to remove from the cantonment within twenty-four hours and not to re-enter it without his permission in writing. (2) No person who has under sub-section (1) been ordered to remove from and not to re-enter a cantonment shall enter any other cantonment2[* * *] without the written permission of the3[Officer Commanding the station]. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 14, for "Commanding Officer of the Cantonment". 2. The words "in the Provinces" omitted by the A.O. 1950. 3. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 8, for "Commanding Officer of the Cantonment".

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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 173

Title: Free Patients

State: Central

Year: 1924

At every hospital or dispensary maintained or aided under section 171, the sick poor of the cantonment, and other inhabitants of the cantonment suffering from infectious or contagious diseases, and, with the sanction of the1[Board], any other sick persons, may receive medical2[or surgical] treatment free of cost, and, if treated as in-patients, shall be either dieted gratuitously or, if the medical officer in charge so directs, shall be granted subsistence allowance on such scale as the1[Board] may fix. 3[***] ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Autority". 2. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 43. 3. The Proviso omitted by Act 15 of 1983, section 98 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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