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Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 78

Title: What Buildings, Etc., Are to Be Deemed Vacant

State: Central

Year: 1924

(1) For the purposes of sections 76 and 77 no building, tenement or land shall be deemed vacant if maintained as a pleasure resort or town or country house or be deemed unproductive of rent if let to a tenant who has a continuing right of occupation thereof, whether he is actual occupation or not. (2) The burden of proving all facts entitling any person to claim relief under section 75, or section 76 or section 77, shall be upon him.

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 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 76

Title: Remission of Tax

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....and unproductive of rent, the Board shall remit or refund one-half of such portion of any tax] assessed on the annual value thereof as bears to the whole of the tax so assessed the same proportion as the number of days during which the building or land has remained vacant and unproductive of rent bears to the total length of the season. ___________________________ 1 The words "other than a hill cantonment" omitted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30. 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30, for "ninety". 3. The words "other than a hill cantonment" omitted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30. 4. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 5. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 49, for "such portion of any tax" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 6. The words "and payable in respect of that year" omitted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30. 7. Inserted by Act 15 of 1942, section 7.

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 17

Title: Vacancies in Special Cases

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....at an election held when a Board is constituted for the first time no member or an insufficient number of members is elected or an elected member is unwilling to serve on the Board.] 4 [(3) For the purposes of sub-section (2) of section 16, a member nominated in pursuance of sub-section (2) of this section shall, [where there has been a division of the cantonment into wards, be deemed to have been elected by such ward] as the Central Government may at the time of making the nomination or at any time thereafter declare.] 4 [(4)] The term of office of a member nominated or deemed to have been re-elected under this section shall expire at the time at which it would have expired if he had been elected at the ordinary or casual election, as the case may be. __________________________ 1. Inserted by Act 15 of 1942, section 2. 2. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 2, for the former sub-section (2). 3. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 2, for the former sub-section (2). 4. Sub-section (3) was inserted and the original sub-section (3) re-numbered as sub-section (4) by Act 15 of 1942, section 2.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 18

Title: Oath or Affirmation

State: Central

Year: 1924

1[18. Oath or affirmation-- (1) Every person who is by virtue of his office, or who is nominated or elected to be, a member of the Board shall, before taking his seat, make and subscribe at a meeting of the Board an oath or affirmation of his allegiance to the Constitution of India in the following form, namely:-- "I. A., B., having become/been elected / been nominated a member of this Board, do. swear in the name/solemnly affirm of God that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of India as by law established and that I will faithfully discharge the duty upon which I am about to enter". (2) If any such person fails to make and Substituted cribe the oath or affirmation at one of the first two meetings held after the date of commencement of his term of office, the Central Government shall, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare his seat to be vacant: Provided that a meeting where the member is absent with the leave of the Board shall not be taken into account.] __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 11, for "section 18" w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 19

Title: Resignation

State: Central

Year: 1924

.....Commanding-in-Chief, the Command for orders.] (2) If the2[Central Government or the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, as the case may be,]accepts the resignation, such acceptance shall be communicated to the Board, and thereupon the seat of the member resigning shall become vacant. 3[(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (2), the resignation of any person elected to more than one seat in a Board from all but one of the seats in pursuance of sub-section (1A) of section 17 shall take effect when such resignation is received by the President of the Board.] __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 12, for sub-section (1) w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 12, for "Central Government" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 3. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 12 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 21

Title: Term of Office of Vice-president

State: Central

Year: 1924

1[((1) The term of office of a Vice-president shall be2[five years] or the residue of his term of office as a member, whichever is less.] (2) A Vice-President may resign his office by notice in writing to the President and, on the resignation being accepted by the Board, the office shall become vacant. 3[(3) A Vice-President may be removed from his office, at a special meeting convened for the purpose on a requisition for the same by not less than one-half of the elected members of the Board holding office, by a resolution passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the total number of elected members then holding office and attending and no member, other than an elected member, shall have the right to vote on the resolution.] __________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 8, for the original sub-section. 2. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 14, for "three years" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 3. Inserted by Act 15 of 1983, section 14 w.e.f. 1-10-1983.

Cantonments Act, 1924 Section 77

Title: Power to Require Entry in Assessment List of Details of Buildings

State: Central

Year: 1924

For the purpose of obtaining a partial remission or refund of tax, the owner of a building composed of separate tenements may request the 1 [Board], at the time of the assessment of the building, to enter in the assessment list, in addition to the annual value of the whole building, a note recording in detail the annual value of each separate tenement. When any tenement, the annual value of which has been thus separately recorded, has remained vacant and unproductive of rent for 2 [sixty] or more consecutive days 3 [***] 4 [one-half of such portion of any tax] assessed on the annual value of the whole building 5 [* * *] shall be remitted or refunded as would have been remitted or refunded if the tenement had been separately assessed. ___________________________ 1. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 69, for "Cantonment Authority". 2. Substituted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30, for "ninety". 3. The words "during any year" omitted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30. 4. Substituted by Act 15 of 1983, section 49, for "such portion of any tax" w.e.f. 1-10-1983. 5 The words "and payable in respect of that year" omitted by Act 24 of 1936, section 30.