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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 38

Title: Business to Be Transacted

State: Central

Year: 1924

Subject to any regulation made by the Board under this Chapter, any business may be transacted at any meeting: Provided that no business relating to the imposition, abolition or modification of any tax shall be transacted at a meeting unless notice of the same and of the date fixed therefore has been sent to each member not less than seven days before that date.

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 Section 39

Title: Quorum

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of a Board 1 [in which there is more than one elected member] shall be five or one-half of the number of members of the Board actually holding office at the time, whichever is the greater number: 2 [***] 1 [(1A)The quorum necessary for the transaction of business at a meeting of a Board constituted under sub-section (5) of section 13 or under sub-section (1) of section 14, shall be two.] (2) If a quorum is not present, the President, 3 [ or in the absence of the President, the Vice-President, or in the absence of both the President and the Vice-President, the Secretary] shall adjourn the meeting and the business which would have been brought before the original meeting if there had been a quorum present thereat shall be brought before, and may be transacted at, an adjourned meeting, whether there is a quorum present or not. ________________________ 1.Inserted by Act 24 of 1936, section 14. 2.The proviso rep. by Act 24 of 1936, section 14. 3.Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 25, w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Chapter XVII

Title: Supplemental Provisions

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in the resolution, all or any of its functions under clause (b) of sub-section (5) of section 119, section 161, section 163, section 168, section 169, section 196 and section 197. (2) The civil area committee may, by passing a similar resolution, delegate subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified in such resolution, all or any of its functions under section 189 and section 195 to the Vice-President, Executive Officer or Health Officer.] _____________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 162, for Section 286A (w.e.f. 1-10-1983). Section 287 - Registration (1) Paragraphs 2 and 3 of section 54, and section 59, 107 and 123 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1 882 (4 of 1882), with respect to the transfer of property by registered instrument, shall, on and from the commencement of this Act, extend to every cantonment. 1[(2) The Registrar or Sub-Registrar of the district or sub-district formed for the purposes of the2[Registration Act], 1 908 (16 of 1908), in which any cantonment is situated, shall,3[when any document relating to immovable property within the cantonment is.....

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 289

Title: Admissibility of Document or Entry as Evidence

State: Central

Year: 1924

A copy of any receipt, application, plan, notice, order or other document or of any entry in a register, in the possession of a1[Board] shall, if duly certified by the legal keeper thereof or other person authorised2[by the Executive Officer] in this behalf, be admissible in evidence of the existence of the document or entry, and shall be admitted as evidence of the matters and transactions therein recorded in every case where, and to the same extent to which, the original document or entry would, if produced, have been admissible to prove such matters. _____________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 164, for "by the Board" (w.e.f. 1-10-1983).

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 290

Title: Evidence by Officer or Servant of the Board

State: Central

Year: 1924

No officer or servant of a1[Board] shall, in any legal proceeding to which the1[Board] is not a party, be required to produce any register or document the contents of which can be proved under section 289 by a certified copy, or to appear as a witness to prove any matter or transaction recorded therein save by order of the court made for special cause. _____________________________ 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