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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 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 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.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 187

Title: Projections and Obstructions

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) No owner or occupier of any building in a cantonment shall, without the permission in writing of the1[Board] add to or place against or in front of the building any projection or structure overhanging, projecting into, or encroaching on, any street or any drain, sewer or aqueduct therein. (2) The1[Board] may, by notice in writing, require the owner or occupier of any such building to alter or remove any such projection or encroachment as aforesaid: Provided that, in the case of any projection or encroachment lawfully in existence at the commencement of this Act, the1[Board] shall make compensation for any damage caused by the removal or alteration. (3) The1[Board] may, by order in writing, give permission to the owners or occupiers of buildings in any particular street to put up open verandahs, balconies or rooms projecting from any upper storey thereof to an extent beyond the line of the plinth or basement wall at such height from the level ground or street as may be specified in the order. ________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority".