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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 45

Title: Joint Action with Other Local Authority

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....made in the aggregate area and the costs thereby incurred shall be divided between the cantonment fund and the fund subject to the control of such other to cal authority, in such proportion, as may have been determined by the agreement.] ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 18, for "either of the said authorities". 3. Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 18. 4. Substituted by the A.O. 1937, for "L.G.". 5. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 18, for "authorities so contracting". 6. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 30, for certain words w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 7. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 18, for "authorities". 8. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 30, for clauses (a) and (b) w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 9. Clause(c) re-lettered as clause (b) by Act 15 of 1983, section 30 w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 10. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 30, for clause (b) w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

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 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 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.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 2

Title: Definitions

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.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 29

Title: Interpretation

State: Central

Year: 1924

..... (5) The publication by a candidate or his agent or by any other person, with the consent of a candidate or his agent, of any statement of fact which is false, and which he either believes to be false or does not believe to be true, in relation to the personal character or conduct of any candidate, or in relation to the candidature, or withdrawal of any candidate, being a statement reasonably calculated to prejudice the prospects of that candidate's election. (6) The hiring or procuring, whether on payment or otherwise, of any vehicle or vessel by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his agent or the use of such vehicle or vessel for the free conveyance of any elector (other than the candidate himself, the members of his family or his agent) to or from any polling station or place fixed for the poll: Provided that the hiring of a vehicle or vessel by any elector or by several electors at their joint costs for the purpose of conveying him or them to and from any such polling station or place fixed for the poll shall not be deemed to be a corrupt practice under this clause if the vehicle or vessel so hired is a vehicle or.....

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 Section 65

Title: Incidence of Taxation

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....by such occupier bears to the aggregate amount of the letting valuethereof, if any, stated in the authenticated assessment list. (4) An occupier who makes any payment for which he is not primarily liableunder this section shall, in the absence of any contract to the contrary, beentitled to be reimbursed by the person primarily liable for the payment, and,if so entitled, may deduct the amount so paid from the amount of any rent fromtime to time becoming due from himto such person. ___________________________ 1. Insertedby Act 26 of 1927, section 7. 2. Substitutedby Act 24 of 1936, section 25, for "from the Secretary of State in Council orfrom". 3. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section69, for "Cantonment Authority". 4. Insertedby Act 15 of 1983, section 42 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 30

Title: Joint Families, Etc

State: Central

Year: 1924

[Rep. by the Cantonments (Amendment) Act, 1954 (2 of 1954), section 8.]