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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 248

Title: Regard to Be Had to Social and Religious Usages

State: Central

Year: 1924

When any place used as a human dwelling is entered under this Act, due regard shall be paid to the social and religious customs and usages of the occupants of the place entered, and no apartment in the actual occupancy of a female shall be entered or broken open until she has been informed that she is at liberty to withdraw and every reasonable facility has been afforded to her for withdrawing.

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 XV

Title: Powers, Procedure, Penalties and Appeals

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....present refuses to open such door, gate or barrier. Section 246 - Entry to be made in the day time Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no entry authorised by or under this Act shall be made except between the hours of sunrise and sunset. Section 247 - Owner's consent ordinarily to be obtained Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, no building or land shall be entered without the consent of the occupier, or if there is no occupier, of the owner thereof, and no such entry shall be made without giving the said occupier or owner, as the case may be, not less than four hours' written notice of the intention to make such entry : 1[Provided that no such notice shall be necessary if the place to be inspected is a factory or workshop or trade premises or a place used for carrying on any trade, calling or occupation specified in section 210 or a stable for horses or a shed for cattle or a latrine, privy or urinal or a work under construction, or for the purpose of ascertaining whether any animal intended for human food is slaughtered in that place in contravention of this Act or any bye-law made thereunder.] ________________________ 1. Substituted by.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 140

Title: Power to Require Repair or Alteration of Building

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) Where any building in a cantonment is so ill-constructed or dilapidated as to be, in the opinion of the1[Board], in an insanitary state, the1[Board] may, by notice in writing, require the owner, within such time as may be specified in the notice, to execute such repairs or to make such alterations as it thinks necessary for the purpose of removing such defects. (2) A copy of every notice issued under sub-section (1) shall be conspicuously posted on the building to which it relates. (3) A notice issued under sub-section (1) shall be deemed to have been complied with if the owner of the building to which it relates has, instead of executing the repairs or making the alterations directed by the notice, removed the building. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".

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 13

Title: Constitution of Cantonment Boards

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....nominate under clause (e) of sub-section (3), clause (e) of Substituted ection (4) or clause (b) of sub-section (5), any person, whether in the service of the Government or not, who is ordinarily resident in the cantonment or in the vicinity thereof. (7) Every election or nomination of a member of a Board and every vacancy in the membership thereof shall be notified by the5[Central Government] in the Official Gazette.] __________________________ 1. The words "and an Executive Officer" omitted by Act 15 of 1983, section 4 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 2. The proviso rep. by the A.O. 1948. 3. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 6, for "a Magistrate of the first class" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 4. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for the former clause. 5. Substituted by the A.O. 1950, for "L.G.".

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.....