Cantonments Act, 2006

The Cantonments Act, 2006

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Act ID:	200641
Act Number:	41
Enactment Date:	2006-09-13
Act Year:	2006
Short Title:	The Cantonments Act, 2006
Long Title:	An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the administration of cantonments with a view to impart greater democratisation, improvement of their financial base to make provisions for developmental activities and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Ministry:	Ministry of Defence
Department:	Department of Defence
Enforcement Date:	18-12-2006
Notification:	18th December, 2006, vide notification No. S.R.O. 15(E), dated 18th December, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i).


Schedule 1. SCHEDULE I. Order Appendix Forms
Schedule 2. SCHEDULE II. Order Appendix Forms
Schedule 3. SCHEDULE III Order Appendix Forms
Schedule 4. SCHEDULE IV. Order Appendix Forms
Schedule 5. SCHEDULE V. Order Appendix Forms

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Section 1. Short title, extent and commencement.
Section 2. Definitions.
Section 3. Definition of cantonments.
Section 4. Alteration of limits of cantonments.
Section 5. The effect of including area in cantonment.
Section 6. Disposal of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund when area ceases to be a cantonment.
Section 7. Disposal of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund when area ceases to be included in a cantonment.
Section 8. Application of funds and property transferred under sections 6 and 7.
Section 9. Limitation of operation of Act.
Section 10. Cantonment Board.
Section 11. Incorporation of Cantonment Board.
Section 12. Constitution of Cantonment of Boards. Show Related Subordinates
Section 13. Power to vary constitution of Boards in special circumstances.
Section 14. Term of office of members.
Section 15. Filling of vacancies.
Section 16. Vacancies in special cases.
Section 17. Oath or affirmation.
Section 18. Resignation.
Section 19. President and Vice-President.
Section 20. Term of office of Vice-President.
Section 21. Duties of President.
Section 22. Duties of Vice-President.
Section 23. Allowances to Vice-President and members.
Section 24. Appointment of Chief Executive Officer.
Section 25. Duties of Chief Executive Officer.
Section 26. Special power of Chief Executive Officer.
Section 27. Electoral rolls.
Section 28. Qualification of electors.
Section 29. Qualification for being a member of the Board.
Section 30. Interpretation.
Section 31. Power to make rules regulating elections.
Section 32. Member not to vote on matter in which he is interested.
Section 33. Liability of members.
Section 34. Removal of members.
Section 35. Consequences of removal.
Section 36. Member of the Board to be deemed a public servant.
Section 37. Disqualification of person as an employee of Board.
Section 38. Cantonment employee to be deemed a public servant.
Section 39. Meetings.
Section 40. Business to be transcted.
Section 41. Quorum.
Section 42. Presiding Officer.
Section 43. Minutes.
Section 44. Meetings to be public.
Section 45. Method of deciding questions.
Section 46. Civil area.
Section 47. Committees for civil areas.
Section 48. Power to make regulations.
Section 49. Joint action with other local authority.
Section 50. Report on administration.
Section 51. Power of Central Government to require production of documents.
Section 52. Inspection.
Section 53. Power to call for documents.
Section 54. Power to require execution of work, etc.
Section 55. Power to provide for enforcement of direction under section 54.
Section 56. Power to override decision of Board.
Section 57. Power of Central Government to review.
Section 58. Power of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, on reference under section 56 or otherwise.
Section 59. Power of Central Government on a reference made under section 56.
Section 60. Supersession of Board.
Section 61. Validity of proceedings, etc.
Section 62. Duties of Board.
Section 63. Power to manage property.
Section 64. Discretionary functions of Board.
Section 65. Power of expenditure of educational, health and other purposes outside the cantonment.
Section 66. General power of taxation.
Section 67. Charging of fees.
Section 68. Norms of property tax.
Section 69. Framing of preliminary proposals.
Section 70. Objections and disposal thereof.
Section 71. Imposition of tax.
Section 72. Power of Central Government to issue directions to the Board.
Section 73. Definition of “annual rateable value”.
Section 74. Incidence of taxation.
Section 75. Assessment list.
Section 76. Revision of assessment list.
Section 77. Authentication of assessment list.
Section 78. Evidential value of assessment list.
Section 79. Amendment of assessment list.
Section 80. Preparation of new assessment list.
Section 81. Notice of transfers.
Section 82. Notice of erection of buildings.
Section 83. Demolition, etc., of buildings.
Section 84. Remission of tax.
Section 85. Power to require entry in assessment list of details of buildings.
Section 86. Notice to be given of the circumstances in which remission or refund is claimed.
Section 87. What buildings, etc., are to be deemed vacant.
Section 88. Notice to be given of every occupation of vacant building or house.
Section 89. Tax on buildings and land to be a charge thereon.
Section 90. Inspection of imported goods, octroi, terminal tax and toll, etc.
Section 91. Power to seize, etc.
Section 92. Lease of octroi, terminal tax or toll.
Section 93. Appeals against assessment.
Section 94. Costs of appeal.
Section 95. Recovery of costs from Board.
Section 96. Conditions of right to appeal.
Section 97. Finality of appellate orders.
Section 98. Time and manner of payment of taxes.
Section 99. Public notice for taxes due.
Section 100. Notice of demand.
Section 101. Recovery of tax.
Section 102. Interest payable on taxes due.
Section 103. Distress.
Section 104. Disposal of distrained property.
Section 105. Attachment and sale of immovable property.
Section 106. Recovery from a person about to leave cantonment and refund of surplus sale proceeds, if any.
Section 107. Power to institute suit for recovery.
Section 108. Board to be a Municipality for taxation purposes.
Section 109. Payment to be made to a Board as service charges by Central Government or State Government.
Section 110. Power to be make special provision for conservancy in certain cases.
Section 111. Exemption in case of buildings.
Section 112. General power of exemption.
Section 113. Exemption of poor persons.
Section 114. Composition.
Section 115. Irrecoverable debts.
Section 116. Obligation to disclose liability.
Section 117. Immaterial error not to affect liability.
Section 118. Distraint not to be invalid by reason of immaterial defect.
Section 119. Cantonment fund and cantonment development fund.
Section 120. Custody of cantonment fund and cantonment development fund.
Section 121. Power of Board to borrow money.
Section 122. Property.
Section 123. Application of cantonment fund, cantonment development fund and property.
Section 124. Acquisition of immovable property.
Section 125. Power to make rules regarding cantonment fund, cantonment development fund and property.
Section 126. Contracts by whom to be executed.
Section 127. Sanction.
Section 128. Execution of contract.
Section 129. Contracts improperly executed not to be binding on a Board.
Section 130. Responsibility for sanitation.
Section 131. General duties of Health Officer.
Section 132. Public latrines, urinals and conservancy establishments.
Section 133. Duty of occupier to collect and desposit rubbish, etc.
Section 134. Power of Board to undertake private conservancy arrangement.
Section 135. Deposits and disposal of rubbish, etc.
Section 136. Cesspools, receptacles, for filth, etc.
Section 137. Filling up of tank, etc.
Section 138. Provision of latrines, etc.
Section 139. Sanitation in factories, etc.
Section 140. Private latrines.
Section 141. Special provisions for collection of rubbish and solid waste management.
Section 142. Removal of congested buildings.
Section 143. Overcrowding of dwelling houses.
Section 144. Power to require repair or alternation of building.
Section 145. Power to require land or building to be cleansed.
Section 146. Prohibition in respect of air pollutant.
Section 147. Power to order disuse of house.
Section 148. Removal of noxious vegetation.
Section 149. Agriculture and irrigation.
Section 150. Power to call for information regarding burial and burning grounds.
Section 151. Permission for use of new burial or burning ground.
Section 152. Power to require closing of burial or burning ground.
Section 153. Exemption from operation of sections 150 to 152.
Section 154. Removal of corpses.
Section 155. Obligation concerning infectious, contagious o communicable diseases.
Section 156. Blood Bank.
Section 157. Special measures in case of outbreak of infectious or epidemic diseases.
Section 158. Power to require names of a dairyman‟s customers.
Section 159. Power to require names of a washerman‟s customers.
Section 160. Power to require names of patients or customers of a medical practitioner or paramedical workers.
Section 161. Report after inspection of dairy or washerman or medical practitioner‟s place of business.
Section 162. Action on report submitted by Health Officer.
Section 163. Examination of milk, washed clothes or needles, syringes, etc.
Section 164. Contamination of public conveyance.
Section 165. Disinfection of public conveyance.
Section 166. Penalty for failure to report.
Section 167. Driver of conveyance not bound to carry person suffering from infectious or contagious disease.
Section 168. Disinfection of building or articles therein.
Section 169. Destruction of infectious hut or shed.
Section 170. Temporary shelter for inmates of disinfected or destroyed buildings or shed.
Section 171. Disinfection of building before letting the same.
Section 172. Disposal of infected article without disinfection.
Section 173. Means of disinfection.
Section 174. Marking or selling of food, etc., or washing clothes by infected person.
Section 175. Power to restrict or prohibit sale of food or drink.
Section 176. Control over wells, tanks, etc.
Section 177. Disposal of infectious corpse.
Section 178. Maintenance or aiding of hospitals or dispensaries.
Section 179. Medical supplies, appliances, etc.
Section 180. Free patients.
Section 181. Paying patients.
Section 182. Power to order person to attend hospital or dispensary.
Section 183. Power to exclude from cantonment persons refusing to attend hospital or dispensary.
Section 184. Routes for pilgrims and others.
Section 185. Conditions of service of Safai Karamcharis and others.
Section 186. Maintenance of water-supply.
Section 187. Terms of water-supply.
Section 188. Board to carry out survey and formulate proposals.
Section 189. Control over sources of public water-supply.
Section 190. Power to require maintenance or closing of private source of public drinking water-supply.
Section 191. Supply of water.
Section 192. Power to require water-supply to be taken.
Section 193. Supply of water under agreement.
Section 194. Board not liable for failure of supply.
Section 195. Conditions of universal application.
Section 196. Supply to persons outside cantonment.
Section 197. Penalty.
Section 198. Power of Board to lay wires, connections, etc.
Section 199. Wires, etc., laid above surface of ground.
Section 200. Connection with main not be made without permission.
Section 201. Power to prescribe ferrules and establish meters, etc.
Section 202. Power of inspection.
Section 203. Power to fix rates and charges.
Section 204. Government water-supply.
Section 205. Water supply for domestic consumption.
Section 206. Recovery of charges.
Section 207. Supply of water from Government water-supply to the Board.
Section 208. Functions of the Board in relation to distribution of bulk supply.
Section 209. Special provisions concerning drainage and sewage.
Section 210. Construction of and control of drains and sewage collection and disposal works.
Section 211. Certain matters not to be passed into cantonments drains.
Section 212. Application by owners and occupiers to drain into cantonment drains.
Section 213. Drainage of undrained premises.
Section 214. New premises not be erected without drains.
Section 215. Power to drain group or block of premises by combined operations.
Section 216. Power to close or limit the use of private drains in certain cases.
Section 217. Use of drain by a person other than the owner.
Section 218. Sewage and rain water drains to be distinct.
Section 219. Power to require owner to carry out certain works for satisfactory drainage.
Section 220. Appointment of places for the emptying of drains and collection of sewage.
Section 221. Connection with water works and drains not to be made without permission.
Section 222. Buildings, railways and private streets not to be erected or constructed over drains or water works without permission.
Section 223. Rights or user of property for aqueducts, lines, etc.
Section 224. Power of owner of premises to place pipes and drains through land belonging to other persons.
Section 225. Power to require railway level, etc., to be raised or lowered.
Section 226. Power to execute work after giving notice to the person liable.
Section 227. Power to affix shafts, etc., for ventilation of drain or cesspool.
Section 228. Power to examine and test drains, etc., believed to be defective.
Section 229. Bulk delivery of sewage by the Board.
Section 230. Employment of Government agencies for repair, etc.
Section 231. Works to be done by licensed plumber.
Section 232. Prohibition of certain acts.
Section 233. Preparation of land use plan.
Section 234. Sanction for building.
Section 235. Notice of new buildings.
Section 236. Conditions of valid notice.
Section 237. Powers of Board under certain sections exercisable by Chief Executive Officer.
Section 238. Power of Board to sanction or refuse.
Section 239. Order of stoppage of building or works in certain cases and disposal of things removed.
Section 240. Power to sanction general scheme for prevention of overcrowding, etc.
Section 241. Compensation.
Section 242. Completion notice.
Section 243. Lapse of sanction.
Section 244. Restrictions on use of buildings.
Section 245. Period for completion of building.
Section 246. Completion certificate.
Section 247. Illegal erection and re-erection.
Section 248. Power to stop erection or re-erection or to demolish.
Section 249. Power to seal unauthorised constructions.
Section 250. Courts not to entertain proceedings in certain cases.
Section 251. Power to make bye-laws.
Section 252. Prohibition of structures or fixtures which cause obstruction in streets.
Section 253. Unauthorised buildings over drains, etc.
Section 254. Drainage and sewer connections.
Section 255. Power to attach brackets for lamps and other accessories.
Section 256. Maintenance of Roads.
Section 257. Temporary occupation of street, land, etc.
Section 258. Closing and opening of streets.
Section 259. Names of streets and numbers of buildings.
Section 260. Group Housing Schemes.
Section 261. Boundary walls, hedges and fences.
Section 262. Felling, lopping and trimming or trees.
Section 263. Digging of public land.
Section 264. Improper use of land.
Section 265. Public markers and slaughter-houses.
Section 266. Use of public market.
Section 267. Power to transfer by public auction, etc.
Section 268. Stallages, rents, etc., to be published.
Section 269. Private markets and slaughter-houses.
Section 270. Conditions of grant of licence for private market or slaughter-house.
Section 271. Penalty for keeping market or slaughter-house open without licence, etc.
Section 272. Penalty for using unlicensed market or slaughter-house.
Section 273. Prohibition and restriction of use of slaughter-house.
Section 274. Power to inspect slaughter-houses.
Section 275. Power to regulate certain activities.
Section 276. Provision of washing places.
Section 277. Licences required for carrying on of certain occupations.
Section 278. Power to stop use of premises used in contravention of licences.
Section 279. Conditions which may be attached to licences.
Section 280. Power to vary licence.
Section 281. Carrying on trade, etc., without licence or in contravention of section 280.
Section 282. Feeding animals on dirt, etc.
Section 283. Powers of entry and seizure.
Section 284. Import of cattle and flesh.
Section 285. Unauthorised sale of spirituous liquor or intoxicating drug.
Section 286. Unauthorised possession of spirituous liquor.
Section 287. Arrest of persons and seizure and confiscation of things for offences against the two last foregoing sections.
Section 288. Saving of articles sold or supplied for medicinal purposes.
Section 289. Penalty for causing nuisances.
Section 290. Registration and control of dogs.
Section 291. Traffic rule of the road.
Section 292. Use of inflammable materials for buildings purposes.
Section 293. Stacking or collecting inflammable materials.
Section 294. Care of naked lights.
Section 295. Regulation of cinematographic and dramatic performances.
Section 296. Discharging fire-works, fire-arms, etc.
Section 297. Power to require buildings, wells, etc., to be rendered safe.
Section 298. Enclosure of wasteland used for improper purposes.
Section 299. Power to remove brothels and prostitutes.
Section 300. Penalty for loitering and importuning for purposes of prostitution.
Section 301. Removal of persons from cantonment.
Section 302. Removal and exclusion from cantonment of disorderly persons.
Section 303. Removal and exclusion from cantonment of seditious persons.
Section 304. Penalty.
Section 305. Powers of entry.
Section 306. Power of inspection by member of a Board.
Section 307. Power of inspection, etc.
Section 308. Power to enter land, adjoining land where work is in progress.
Section 309. Breaking into premises.
Section 310. Entry to be made in the day time.
Section 311. Owner‟s consent ordinarily to be obtained.
Section 312. Regard to be had to social and religious usages.
Section 313. Penalty for obstruction.
Section 314. Arrest without warrant.
Section 315. Duties of police officers.
Section 316. Notices to fix reasonable time.
Section 317. Authentication and validity of notices issued by Board.
Section 318. Service of notice, etc.
Section 319. Method of giving notice.
Section 320. Powers of Board in case of non-compliance with notice, etc.
Section 321. Occupier not to obstruct owner when complying with notice.
Section 322. Liability of occupier to play in default of owner.
Section 323. Relief to Agents and Trustees.
Section 324. Method of recovery.
Section 325. Application for a Committee of Arbitration.
Section 326. Procedure for convening Committee of Arbitration.
Section 327. Constitution of the Committee of Arbitration.
Section 328. No person to be nominated who has direct interest or whose services are not immediately available.
Section 329. Meetings and powers of Committee or Arbitration.
Section 330. Decisions of Committee of Arbitration.
Section 331. Prosecutions.
Section 332. Composition of offence.
Section 333. General penalty.
Section 334. Offences by companies.
Section 335. Cancellation or suspension of licences, etc.
Section 336. Recovery of amount payable in respect of damage to cantonment property.
Section 337. Limitation for prosecution.
Section 338. Protection of action of Board, etc.
Section 339. Notice to be given of suits.
Section 340. Appeals from executive orders.
Section 341. Petition of Appeal.
Section 342. Suspension of Action Pending Appeal.
Section 343. Revision.
Section 344. Finality of the Appellate Orders.
Section 345. Right of appellant to be heard.
Section 346. Power to make rules.
Section 347. Supplemental provisions respecting rules.
Section 348. Power to make bye-laws.
Section 349. Penalty for breach of bye-laws.
Section 350. Supplemental provisions regarding bye-laws and regulations.
Section 351. Rules and bye-laws to be available for inspection and purchase.
Section 352. Extension of certain provisions of the Act and rules to place beyond cantonments.
Section 353. Power to delegate functions to the President, etc.
Section 354. Registration.
Section 355. Validity of notices and other documents.
Section 356. Admissibility of document or entry as evidence.
Section 357. Evidence by officer or employee of the Board.
Section 358. Application of Act 4 of 1899.
Section 359. Power to remove difficulties.
Section 360. Repeals and savings.

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