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Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XIV

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

State: Central

Year: 1924

..... ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15of 1983, section 136, for "Armed Forces of the Union" (w.e.f. 1-10-1983). 2.Substituted by Act 7 of1925, section 14, for "Commanding Officer of the cantonment". 3.Substituted by the A.O.1937, for "L.G.". 4.Substituted by the A.O.1937, for "refer the case to the G.G. in C., who shall pass such ordersthereon as he thinks fit". Section 240 - Penalty Whoever-- (a) fails to comply with an order issued under this Chapter within the period specified therein, or, whilst an order prohibiting him from re-entering a cantonment without permission is in force, re-enters the cantonment without such permission, or (b) knowing that any person has, under this Chapter, been required to remove from the cantonment and has not obtained the requisite permission to re-enter it, harbours or conceals such person in the cantonment, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to1[five hundred rupees], and, in the case of a continuing offence, with an additional fine which may extend to2[fifty rupees] for every day after the first during which he has persisted in the offence. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 237

Title: Removal of Lewd Persons from Cantonment

State: Central

Year: 1924

If the1[Officer Commanding the station]2[or the Board] is, after such inquiry3[as he or it thinks necessary], satisfied that any person residing in or frequenting the cantonment is a prostitute or has been convicted of an offence under section 236, or of the abetment of such an offence,4[he or, as the case may be, the Board may] cause to be served on such person an order in writing requiring such person to remove from the cantonment within such time as may be specified in the order, and prohibiting such person from re-entering it without the permission in writing of the5[Officer Commanding the station]2[or the Board]. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 7 of 1925, section 10, for "commanding Officer of the cantonment". 2. Inserted by Act 2 of 1954, section 21. 3. Substituted by Act 2 of 1954, section 21, for "as he thinks necessary". 4. Substituted by Act 2 of 1954, section 21 for "he may". 5. Inserted by Act 7 of 1931, sec 7.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Complete Act

Title: Cantonments Act, 1924

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....- Cesspools, receptacles, for filth, etc Section134 - Filling up of tank, etc Section135 - Provision of latrines, etc Section136 - Sanitation in factories, etc Section137 - Private latrines Section138 - Removal of congested buildings Section139 - Overcrowding of dwelling houses Section140 - Power to require repair or alteration of building Section141 - Power to require land or building to be cleansed Section142 - Power to order disuse of house Section143 - Removal of noxious vegetation Section144 - Agriculture and irrigation Section145 - Power to call for information regarding burial and burning grounds Section146 - Permission for use of new burial or burning ground Section147 - Power to require closing of burial or burning ground Section148 - Exemption from operation of sections 145 to 147 Section149 - Removal of corpses Section150 - Obligation concerning infectious or contagious diseases Section151 - Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases Section152 - Power to require names of dairyman's customers Section153 - Power to require names of a washerman's customers Section154 - Report after inspection of dairy or washerman's.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....any farm, cattle-shed, milk-store, milk-shop or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for purposes of sale or is manufactured for sale into butter, ghee, cheese or curds, and, in relation to a dairyman who does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes any place in which he keeps the vessels used by him for the storage or sale of milk; (xi) "dairyman" includes the keeper of a cow, buffalo, goat, ass or other animal, the milk of which is offered or is intended to be offered for sale for human consumption, and any purveyor of milk and any occupier of a dairy; a[(xia) "Defence Estates Officer" means the officer appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of the Defence Estates Officer for the purposes of this Act and the rules made thereunder; (xib) "Director" means the officer appointed by the Central Government to perform the duties of the Director, Defence Lands and Cantonments, the Command, for the purposes of this Act and rules made thereunder and includes the Joint Director;] a[c[(xic) "entitled consumer" means a person in a cantonment who is paid from the Defence Services Estimates and is authorised by general or.....