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Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XIV

Title: Removal and Exclusion from Cantonments and Suppression of Sexual Immorality

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....in the order. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 10, for "Commanding Officer of a cantonment". 2. Inserted by Act 2 of 1954, section 20. 3. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 14, for "Commanding Officer of the Cantonment". 4. Substituted by Act 2 of 1954, section 20, for "he may". Section 236 - Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitution (1) Whoever in a cantonment loiters for the purpose of prostitution or importunes any person to the commission of sexual immorality, shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to1[five hundred rupees]. (2) No prosecution for an offence under this section shall be instituted except on the complaint of the person importuned, or of a military officer in whose presence the offence was committed, or of a member of the Military2[, Naval] or Air Force Police, being employed in the cantonment and authorised in this behalf by the3[Officer Commanding the station], in whose presence the offence was committed, or of a police officer not below the rank of a sub-inspector4[or a sergeant] who is employed in the cantonment and.....

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 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 Complete Act

Title: Cantonments Act, 1924

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....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

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".

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 87

Title: Conditions of Right to Appeal

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....or of alteration of assessment or, if no notice has been given, within thirty days next after the date of the presentation of the first bill in respect thereof: Provided that an appeal may be admitted after the expiration of the period prescribed therefor by this section if the appellant satisfies the1[District Court] before whom the appeal is preferred that he had sufficient cause for not preferring it within that period; (b) the amount, if any, in dispute in the appeal has been deposited by the appellant in the office of the2[Board]. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 57, for "Court" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XII

Title: Markets, Slaughter-houses, Trades and Occupations

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....white arsenic in any case in which he is required to take out a licence for such sale, storage, or possession for sale by or under the10[Petroleum Act, 1934 (30 of 1934),] or the Poisons Act, 1919 (12 of 1919). (4) The6[Board] may charge for the grant of licences, under this section11[such reasonable fees], as it may fix with the previous sanction of the12[Central Government]. ________________________ 1. The original clauses (j) to (r) re-lettered (i) to (q) 24 of 1934, section 2 and Schedule I. 2. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 122 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 3. The word "and" rep. by Act 24of 1936, section 55. 4. The word "and" omitted by Act 15 of 1983, section 122 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 5. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 122 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 6. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority" 7. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 55, for "for one year". 8. Added by Act 2 of 1954, section 19. 9. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 122, for "are unsuitable" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 10. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 122, for "Indian Petroleum Act, 1899" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 11. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 122, for.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 215

Title: Powers of Entry and Seizure

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....for sale or deposited in or brought to any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, or any utensil or vessel for preparing, manufacturing or containing any such article, or thing, and may enter into and inspect any place used as a slaughter-house and may examine any animal or article therein; (b) may seize any such animal, article or thing which appears to him to be diseased, or unwholesome or unfit for human food or drink or medicine, as the case may be, or to be adulterated or to be not what it is represented to be, or any such utensil or vessel which is of such a kind or in such a state as to render any article prepared, manufactured or contained therein unwholesome or unfit for human food or for medicine as the case may be. (2) Any article seized under sub-section (1) which is of a perishable nature may, under the orders of the Health Officer or the Assistant Health Officer, forthwith be destroyed if, in his opinion, it is diseased, unwholesome or unfit for human food, drink or medicine, as the case may be. (3) Every animal, article, utensil, vessel or other thing seized under sub-section (1) shall, if it is not destroyed under sub-section (2), be.....

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.....